Talk:MediaWiki/Gallery of extensions

At mediawiki.org or outsourced?
Must this gallery be in mediawiki.org or is there an option for a service maintained elsewhere? It's a question that needs to be answwered, especially if we would like to put e.g. payments/donations in the mix.--Qgil (talk) 00:05, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Pull in WikiApiary?
I would love to volunteer WikiApiary to help with this effort. We already have an index of 3,876 extensions on 8,373 websites. I've got a program that will do "basket analysis" of extensions to determined most commonly installed next to each other. I’m now pulling in license information and allow connecting to Composer packages. Extensions already can be tagged. I would love to be able to vote on them, but there is no great voting extension for MediaWiki that fits this use case.

https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:Main_Page

I'd be happy to host bots that analyze this data, store cumulative information and then feed it via bot into MediaWiki.org.

All of this data is already completely exposed via the Semantic MediaWiki Ask API.

🐝 thingles (talk) 21:20, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Semantic MediaWiki?
Could Semantic MediaWiki (and related extensions) be used for this? Yaron Koren (talk) 00:42, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The idea floated around in Project talk:New contributors/Technical communications/Dev wiki consolidation/Project:New contributors/One ontology but it never went far because of a lack of scope definition IMHO. "Make the user profiles/extensions semantic" is just a slogan, not a plan. However, I think that WikiApiary – thanks to SemanticMediaWiki and its being detached from the official MediaWiki wiki – is a great field where ideas can be incrementally tested. --Nemo 20:31, 14 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, to "make something semantic" is not a real plan, but making use of SMW has a fairly specific meaning nowadays in terms of tools and structures. WikiApiary uses those same structures too, in any case. Yaron Koren (talk) 23:23, 14 February 2014 (UTC)