2009/12/15 geni <[email protected]>: > Wikipedia is probably not able to drive change (not least because > we've probably hit the limits of the software) but it is able to be > involved with it.
Yes, the software is suffering a paucity of developers and certain structural problems due to early decisions that turned out bad (e.g. wikitext is near-impossible to formalise, making WYSIWYG difficult). But mostly it's a paucity of developers. > For example the popularity of wikipedia applications related to > augmented reality shows that it able to be involved with change. On > the other hand we have no way to drive use of 2D barcodes pointing at > wikipedia articles and thus we can't really be involved with augmented > reality below the level that GPS reaches. The thing there then is to get the API into shape. At present it's highly usable for bots, etc - in fact, bots are suggested-to-required to use the API rather than screenscraping. Next step is to evangelise the API to relevant groups of geeks. To keep it UK, I suggest the perlmongers spring to mind :-) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
