On 11/14/2013 09:53 AM, Nathan Larson wrote: > Is there reason to think that a decentralized system would be likely to > evolve, or that it would be optimal? It seems to me that most stuff in the > wikisphere is centered around WMF; e.g. people usually borrow templates, > the spam blacklist, MediaWiki extensions, and so on, from WMF sites. Most > wikis that attempted to duplicate what WMF does have failed to catch on;
As mentioned by Mark and quoted in my email, http://wikiapiary.com/ could be a good starting point. Just improvising a hypothetical starting point for a process to maintain the decentralized interwiki table: In order to become a candidate, a wiki must have the extension installed and a quantifiable score based on age, size, license, and lack of reports as spammer. The extension could perhaps check how much a wiki is linked by how many wikis pof which characteristics, calculating a popularity index of sorts. Maybe you can even have a classification of topics filtering the langage and type of content that matters to your wiki. By default, only wikis above some popularity index would be included in your local interwiki table. The admins could fine tune locally. The master interwiki table could be hosted in Wikiapiary or wherever. It would be mirrored in some wahy by the wikis with the extension installed willing to do so. The maintenance of the table itself doesn't even look like a big deal, compared to developing the extension and adding new interwiki features. It would be based on the userbase of wiki installing the extension. Whether Wikimedia projects join the interwiki party of not, that would depend on the extension being ready for Wikimedia adoption annd a decision to deploy it. But that would be a Wikimedia discussion, not a Interwiki project discussion. As said, all of the above is improvised and hypothetical. Sorry in advance for any planning flaws. :) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
