> 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
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