Wikicompany:Ideas
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Wikimania
- Wikimania and Wikimania at meta
- Programme sheet
- Wikimania 2005Presentations
- Interesting talks:
- The future of MediaWiki (by Erik Möller)
- News
- Wikicompany presentation (was cancelled)
MediaWiki research
General
Specific research projects
- Winter extension - Scripting engine (language specification, author blog)
- Wikipedia Machine Translation
- Monitoring tools
- Spell checking
- Wikidata
- Wiki syntax proposal
- Wikimetrics
- godmode - Javascript based admin/revert speedup tool
- qwikly tools - various wikipedia/mediawiki tool links
- Wikipedifier - text2wiki conversion tool
- Yarrr - A web-based collaborative real-time editor and whiteboarding MediaWiki extension.
- XmlWiki
- XML_Embedding_Extension
- Mediawiki search engine:
- MW standard-search engine CVS directory
- MW lucene-search engine CVS directory
- clucene C++ port of Apache Lucene
WYSIWYG editing
- Wikiwyg.net
- Wikiwyg.net on OpenJSAN
- Greasemonkey version - JS/AJAX based Wikiwyg editor for Mediawiki.
- People involved: Brian Ingerson, Casey West (Socialtext), Jonathan Sanderson
- Wikiwyg.org
- People involved: Jim Higson, Jamie Bliss, Jason Spiro
- Demo page
- synchroedit - a multiuser, realtime collaboration editor.
- XUL based Wikiwyg project.
- Interesting comment:
"Why doesn't someone hack a <wikitextarea> tag into the Firefox browser? Then let the W3C standardize it in HTML 7."
'Official' research team
Webservices
Semantical interface
See: Wikicompany:Semantical interface extension
Mail -> RSS
Email -> Wiki
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mail-to-wiki_gateway (bugzilla item)
- http://collab.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Mail2wiki (another implementation)
Wiki -> Email
- ENotif - Email notification (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enotif)
- EConfirm - Email address confirmation
Wiki -> HTML/PDF/etc.
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DocBook_XML_export (only a proposal)
Wiki -> WAP Phone
- Example site (using Wikipedia articles): http://www.en.wapedia.org
HTML -> Wiki
- html2wiki tool
Company watching
- A customizable user-notification system which tracks the company profile, financials, stocks, relations (competitors, customers, partners), etc.
- Perl XML-RSS-SimpleGen - Simple RSS generator
- Perl Text-Scraper - Screen-scraper system
Machine Translation system
- Machine translation - What MT it is, and the ways it can be done.
- Wikipedia Machine Translation Project
- Free translation engines:
- Non-free translation engines:
- Systran offers an advanced commercial translation engine.
- Dictionary systems:
- Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation (UNDL) - "A w:United Nations project based on an artificial, machine-readable language (UNL). The idea is to semi-automatically create a UNL text from, say, English, then have it fully-automatically translated in up to 150 languages on-the-fly. The project is now an independent organization."
Company identification code
- Names:
- International Standard Company Number (ISCN)
- Global Business Number (GBN)
- Worlwide Company ID (WCID)
- Business Number (BuNu)
- Universal Business ID (UBID)
- Non-related ID, 'open standard', open proces
- central registration / control issues
- first come, first serve basis?
DUNS number scheme:
- "Data Universal Numbering System
- "The D&B D-U-N-S Number is a non-indicative, nine-digit number assigned to each business location in the D&B database having a unique, separate, and distinct operation, and is maintained solely by D&B. The D&B D-U-N-S Number is used by industries and organizations around the world as a global standard for business identification and tracking. If you don’t have a D-U-N-S Number, you can get one for free through the SBS site."
Business publication references
- This information would be placed in the "Reference:" namespace, and would be like gale.com, but with a table-box of structered fields and category annotations.
Business event calendaring
- Wiki based system to view and update business events (viewable by region, sector and time-frame)
- Krass Calendar - MediaWiki calendar extension. (download)
- MediaWiki calendar project based on templates
- AJAX using calendaring systems:
- Links to lists of calendar systems:
- Collaborative web calendaring sites:
JavaScript / AJAX interface improvements
- Autocomplete-suggests for the go/search input field (using a precompiled list of Titles)
- http://script.aculo.us
- http://debianlinux.net/wiki/Web_Frameworks
- Prototype: http://wikicompany.org/test/wick_sample.html (client-side, so not so good for large lists)
- Some fancy examples
- "New Skool DOM Scripting" - A layered approach to DOM/Javascript behaviour control.
- Bookmarklets: tagzania.com bookmarklets
S5 Presentation tool
- Integrating the S5 presentation tool in Mediawiki
- http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
- Theme selection (option to use user-defined CSS styles?)
Mozilla extensions
Greasemonkey extensions
- http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org
- Article history animation:
- Automatic Wikipedia hyper-linking:
MediaWiki clients
Automated (aka Bots)
Interactive
UNSPSC
- Research use of Universal Standard Products and Services Classification
- Data set example (Warning: 8 MB file!): http://wikicompany.org/planet/UNSPSC
- http://www.unspsc.com
- http://www.eccma.org/unspsc/browse/
Financial extension
(See also: Wikicompany:Financial extension)
How about a stockbox in company profiles?
This infobox could contain:
- stock quote links
- stock quote indicators
- links to annual reports (see: annualreports.com)
- These PDF reports could perhaps be uploaded to Wikicompany (if legally allowed?)
- These PDF reports could be parsed to HTML and or text, and made full-text searchable
Other things:
- RSS feeds?
- Semantical annotations?
PDF book and CD-ROM creation
- Automated PDF book and CD-ROM publication of Wikicompany.
Geospatial mapping
For the existing Geo extension functionality see: Wikicompany:Geo extension
- See also: Wikicompany:Postal code DBs
Product ID's
Wiki related
Wiki ideas
Wikischool.org ideas
- http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/ (IEEE.LOM - A syntax and semantics standard of "Learning Object Metadata")
