GlobalTemplates
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| Proposal | ||
| Project name | What is the name for the project? | GlobalTemplates |
| Project description | What a project do you propose? What will be its scope? How would it benefit to be part of Wikimedia? | see below |
| Multilingual wiki(s) | Will there be many language versions or just on one multilingual wiki? | Will there be many language versions or just on one multilingual wiki? |
| Multilingual | Is the project going to be in one language or in many? | Is the project going to be in one language or in many? |
| Technical requirements / problems | ||
| Extraordinary technical requirements | If the project requires any new features that the MediaWiki software currently doesn't have, please describe in detail. Are additional MediaWiki extensions needed for the project? | see below
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[edit] Proposal
I have been waiting for WikiData since a long time now, but nothing seems to happen. However if you have a look at Wikipedia there is already a lot of structured data in w:Help:Infoboxes. All language Wikipedias have their own infoboxes even though they share most of the data, but only by using Copy&Paste.
[edit] Example
Instead of including a local template
{{Infobox Software
|name = MediaWiki
|logo = ...}}
a template from a global data wiki is embedded:
{{global:Infobox Software/MediaWiki}}
which works as a local template would be, but centralizes the effort of keeping the data accurate and up-to-date.
[edit] Chemistry
Those chemical substance infobox templates share some data. They could be adjusted to have multi-lingual descriptions and a project defined CSS-styled look. Maybe some data fields could be made invisible for standard users just as in w:Wikipedia:Persondata so that encyclopedic articles are not overloaded (and to comply with w:WP:IINFO).
- w:Template:Chembox is used in many more other language Wikipedias
- commons:Template:Molecule (not used very much, but the idea is the same with multimedia: both is stored in one central place)
By outsourcing all the (mostly numerical) data this could help prevent table creep.
[edit] Biology
In fact the same technique could make WikiSpecies actually useful for all language Wikipedia:
- w:Template:Taxobox is used in many more other language Wikipedias
[edit] Software
Have a look how English Wikipedia uses sub-templates like w:Template:LSR together with sub-pages w:Template:Latest stable software release/GIMP so that just one "database-entry" is changed not the whole table.
[edit] Bibliography
w:de:Wikipedia:BibRecord is an effort to store commonly used literature references in templates.
[edit] Interlanguage links
w:Help:Interlanguage links are currently stored underneath every Wikipedia article and bots spam the version history by adding them. They could also be globally stored and transcluded.
[edit] Semantics
If a new MediaWiki instance is created why not enable mw:Extension:Semantic MediaWiki which allows searching like this "texteditor platform=windows license=open-source".
[edit] Proposed by
- Matthias 17:21, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Related projects/proposals
[edit] Domain names
- universal
- http://commons.wikimedia.org - just adding it to Wikimedia Commons
- http://central.wikimedia.org
- http://global.wikimedia.org
- http://templates.wikimedia.org
- http://infoboxes.wikimedia.org
- http://data.wikimedia.org
- http://semantics.wikimedia.org
- topic-specific
- http://species.wikimedia.org - use the technique described here
- http://chemicals.wikimedia.org
- ...
[edit] Demos
A good example that this might already work (just a configuration setting?) is wikia:community:Template:Wikia Gaming Footer which can be seen both included in wikia:starcraft:StarCraft Wiki and wikia:gta:Main Page for example.
