Denny and Wikimedians, In what ways might World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW), with plans to be in all 3,000-8,000 languages, and 200 countries, each a school or beginning university as a wiki page, to begin, participate in this process? The English version presently has nearly 500 wiki pages. Here's WUaS's Subject Template, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - as one key to WUaS's structure.
Cheers, Scott On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/10/12 3:14 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> ...You say "Keeping the control over the >> >> formatting in the client wiki seems desirable to me" overlooks the fact >> that normal wiki rules-of-the-road apply within the wikidata environment >> also, where authors certainly should be able to exert "control", likely >> even more so, over infobox content & styling. > > > My understanding is that "normal wiki rules-of-the-road" will not apply on > WikiData, as the editing interface will be form-based, not wikitext-based. > WikiData will not house any infoboxes, only the data that the Wikipedias > will pull into their infoboxes (and elsewhere). > > Housing the infoboxes on WikiData would be a terrible idea for several > reasons: > * Every Wikipedia does infoboxes differently depending on the policies and > conventions of that wiki (for example, on English Wikipedia we strongly > discourage flag icons in infoboxes, while other wikis don't care). > * Infoboxes are only 1 possible use of WikiData. Other possibilities: > ** Setting the birth and death dates in the lead sentences of biographies > ** Setting the coordinates displayed on geography articles > ** Populating the interlanguage links (already planned) > > Ryan Kaldari > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
