I smell another Jon/thedj/aude collaboration coming up... :) On 10 Jan 2015 02:27, "Derk-Jan Hartman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
