> * Wikisource -- better native support for side-by-side translations, > annotations, and extracting/citing primary source material from the > other sites like Wikipedia would be very helpful.
Same thing is in need for Wikiquote as well while I do believe that > ... extracting/citing primary source material from the other sites like ... is extremely useful and very universal thing for any cross-project 'linking' (and even for internal citing) On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 9/9/09 9:41 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> As Erik points out, at a certain point we have to actually write new >> code to support new ideas. Else "projects we could do at Wikimedia" >> becomes "projects we can do with a wiki engine." > > IMO we need to do that for the projects we already have before we take > on new obligations! > > We still have very poor software support for: > > * Commons -- We need a sane upload and post-upload workflow (eg review > and deletion), and a clean system for handling structured metadata > (descriptions, authorship, licence info). > > Some of this is being worked on now with Michael Dale's video & media > work, and the Ford Foundation grant will let us put more resources into > the workflow & metadata side, so this is the one I worry the least about. :) > > > * Wiktionary -- Really needs to be rebuilt as a structured system. It's > very hard to query Wiktionary or extract its data usefully, and there's > a lot of duplicated manual work maintaining it. > > There was some third-party work done in this direction (Ultimate > Wiktionary/WiktionaryZ/OmegaWiki) which was very interesting but never > got the community buy-in to push that work back towards the live Wiktionary. > > > * Wikibooks -- We still have very poor native support for multiple-page > "books" or "modules", which complicates navigation, search, authoring, > and downloading. > > Tools like the Collection extension are making it easier to download a > batch of related pages for offline reading, but someone still needs to > build those collections manually and they don't provide other navigation > aids. > > > * Wikinews -- Workflow on Wikinews has been aided by tools like > FlaggedRevs but is still a bit awkward. Native support for things like > exporting feeds of news articles is still missing, leading to a lot of > workarounds and manual effort being expended. > > > * Wikisource -- better native support for side-by-side translations, > annotations, and extracting/citing primary source material from the > other sites like Wikipedia would be very helpful. > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
