Re:Wikimedia Foundation spending
by rspeer on Monday May 08, 2017 @11:57AM
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Yeah, I understand that. I'm re-purposing the data and it's my job to decide how that works.
But this could be easier. What I hate about Wikimedia's format is templates. They are not very human-editable (try editing a template sometime; unless you're an absolute pro, you will break thousands of articles and be kindly asked to never to do that again) and not very computer-parseable. They're just the first thing someone thought of that worked with MediaWiki's existing feature set and put the right thing on the screen.
Replacing templates with something better -- which would require a project-wide engineering effort -- could make things more accessible to everyone.
FWIW, I do make the intermediate results of my parser downloadable, although to consider them "released" would require documenting them. For example: [1]
But this could be easier. What I hate about Wikimedia's format is templates. They are not very human-editable (try editing a template sometime; unless you're an absolute pro, you will break thousands of articles and be kindly asked to never to do that again) and not very computer-parseable. They're just the first thing someone thought of that worked with MediaWiki's existing feature set and put the right thing on the screen.
Replacing templates with something better -- which would require a project-wide engineering effort -- could make things more accessible to everyone.
FWIW, I do make the intermediate results of my parser downloadable, although to consider them "released" would require documenting them. For example: [1]
[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/conceptnet/precomputed-data/2016/wi...