On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:28 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Risker wrote: >>Lydia, could you please point me to the discussion on *English Wikipedia* >>where the community indicated an interest in deploying this software? >>Infoboxes and sourcing to another website completely outside the control >>of English Wikipedia is a rather big issue, and I would expect to see a >>Request for Comment with at least 200-300 participants. > > I think the issue we're seeing here is that changes, particularly large > changes, often aren't socialized well. > > It probably doesn't help to target the English Wikipedia first, of course, > given that it's often annoyingly exceptional. Wikidata seems like a large > enough change that I agree that a bit more socialization might be nice. > There are over 700 wikis on which to possibly deploy Wikidata, in theory.
English Wikipedia isn't first. Phase 2 has already been deployed on 11 other Wikipedias. It's also not like this is coming out of no-where really ;-) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
