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Wikimedia Documentation Directory v2
A resource for finding Wikimedia documentation both on Wikimedia sites and beyond
idea creator• John Cummings
created on13:17, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Project idea
[edit]What is the problem you're trying to solve?
[edit]Documentation on Wikimedia is sometimes very hard to find, the same issues as outlined in the project plan for V1 of the tool.
What is your solution?
[edit]A tool to automatically index relevant resources and allow curation by individuals, to build on the work of Hay's Documentation Directory but add the following functions
- Automatically scrape Wikipedia:NAMEOFRESOURCE and equalent from other Wikimedia sites.
- Import tools from Hay’s Tool directory
- Curated links from other sites
- Directory of Open organisations with shared goals
- Maintain user friendly form but do not require someone to manage the updates through Google sheets
Additional features:
- A recently added section
- Multiple languages
- Multiple sources if more than one organisation is involved
- Should run off a public database other people can edit and a public directory of open groups
- Some sort of rules about granularity may be helpful?
- Category structure for tags
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