> On 10 jan. 2015, at 02:10, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> What if we used Wikidata and had an open form of sharing? > I could imagine us asking Wikidata what things are instance of sharing > platforms and what the URL for them. Using something like OOJS UI's > InputLookupWidget you could allow users to search for their preferred > service in this category. > > We could then keep track for a given user their preferred services. > > This means we would be completely neutral. It could also be a bit of a > game changer in the open web. Maybe we could revive > http://webintents.org/ using Wikidata? I’ve dabbled quite a bit in this topic, and with the exception of using wikidata as the data platform to query from (which wasn’t around a few years ago), this is exactly how I always envisioned this could and should work for wikipedia. But we simply never had time to build a neutral sharing platform that was usable for Wikipedia. Perhaps now with so much more infrastructure in place, it would be doable. DJ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
