Wikisprout

Mixed bean sprouts

Wikisprout is a plan to connect Wikispore with Wikidata and other Wikimedia wikis, to enable functional interwiki links and Wikidata-enabled infoboxes, graphs and queries.

Some of this work includes to install extensions and technical improvements.

We will try this out on the Wikispore test: environment.

Stage 1: Wikispore links to Wikidata

• Template:Qlink (sprouted!)
• Category:Pages linked to Wikidata (sprouted!)
• Category:Spore-specific templates (sprouted!)

Stage 2: Interwiki link prefix from Wikimedia projects

• metawikimedia:Interwiki map (sprouted!)

Stage 3: Wikidata links to Wikispore

• Wikidata property: Wikispore ID (sprouted!)

Stage 4: Wikimedia Toolforge integration

• metawikimedia:Reasonator
• Custom Wikidata front end with infobox-like functionality, perhaps based on SQID
• Subject-based Wikidata item form generator (Cradle specialized forms implemented!)
• Mbabel page draft generator from Wikidata item
• Languages greater support (Translate extension implemented!)

Stage 5: Wikidata and semantic federation

• Page Forms and Cargo on Wikispore (sprouted!)
• Full Wikibase implementation
• Possibility for partial Wikidata dump through WDumper
• MDWiki pursuing similar goal
• Wikidata:Federation input
• mw:Extension:UnlinkedWikibase

• Template:Wikidata link
• Template:Infobox

Stage 6: Full sister project

• Beta Cluster
• Production
• Approval by Wikimedia Foundation as full sister project
• SUL
• Full Wikidata integration
• Germinating spin-off wikis (Ability to do so implemented!)