Consumerium development 20 years on: Difference between revisions

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[[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|thumb|right|150px|[[mw:MediaWiki]] software has been developed very actively for over 20 yrs and it is vastly more powerful in its capabilities now. It's capabilities can be expanded with [[MediaWiki/extensions]], but one needs to choose carefully and wisely as some permutations of extensions do not work together and some extensions may be difficult to remove after having been installed.]]

{{Q|It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.|[[w:Søren Kierkegaard]]<ref>[[wikiquote:Søren Kierkegaard#The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s]] (1844)</ref>}}

Many of the planned [[features]] have already been implemented as services by both profit-maximizing and non-profit-seeking entities during these past 20 years.

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* [[Knowledge graphs]] consisting of linked data are a complicated field, but necessary for realizing the Consumerium goals.

* The need to handle conflicting data from alternate data sources arises from using other knowledge graphs.

* [[mw:Extension:Cargo]] ~~is probably better for this use case than~~ [[mw:Extension:Wikibase]].

* [[mw:Extension:Cargo]] allows storing and querying structured data in wiki

* The [[test wiki]] could be reinstalled clean to the latest LTS ~~1.39~~ and Cargo installed on it. Or many test wikis could be set up

* [[mw:Extension:Wikibase]] is what powers [[Wikidata]].

* The [[test wiki]] could be reinstalled clean to the latest LTS and Cargo installed on it. Or many test wikis could be set up

* [[kuluttajistow:Etusivu]] - a Finnish language wiki for Finnish Consumerium at the domain Kuluttajisto.fi

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'''Needs freshening up'''

* The [[features]] should be updated to as of now and to include what existing services implement some feature, or even better, what friendly data source provides the data with a licensing setup that we can work with.

* The [[MediaWiki/extensions]] was an attempt at going through all the extensions and scribing up the potential ones. I did this in 2012, so 10 yrs ago and revisiting these extensions would be useful and educating

* The [[MediaWiki/extensions]] was an attempt at going through all the extensions and scribing up the potential ones. I did this in 2012, so 10 yrs ago and revisiting these extensions would be useful and educating.

~~'''THE CURRENT STATE'''~~

~~Uncontested facts: Today is {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} and it is week #{{CURRENTWEEK}}.~~

The wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} [[Special:AllPages|pages]] out of which {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} are articles with {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits, but would be structured differently if all the technological means and savoir faire of now would have been available when we started out with a handful of friends.

~~There are {{NUMBEROFFILES}} [[Special:ListFiles|uploaded files]] but through [[mw:Manual:$wgUseInstantCommons]] many more pictures are available to be used.~~

~~There are {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users, which is bit of a problem, because over 64k of those are bot registered accounts from back in the day~~

~~There are {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} admins. You know who you are~~.

~~Today the wiki is running on~~ [~~[mw~~:~~MediaWiki~~]~~] {{CURRENTVERSION}}.~~

'''Analytics<ref>Thank you to [https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/] for the free web site visitor analytics program</ref>'''

The top 20 articles in the main namespace measured by the number of visits for the year 2022 have been the following:

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'''HISTORY'''

{{Q|It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.|[[w:Søren Kierkegaard]]<ref>[[wikiquote:Søren Kierkegaard#The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s]] (1844)</ref>}}

See [[Timeline of Consumerium]] for info on what has happened during these years that has been significant for the development effort.

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[[User:Jukeboksi/log/All Consumerium logs in one]] may also be useful viewing, at least for me, the [[Lowest Troll]]

'''THE CURRENT STATE'''

Uncontested facts: Today is {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} and it is week #{{CURRENTWEEK}}.

The wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} [[Special:AllPages|pages]] out of which {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} are articles with {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits, but would be structured differently if all the technological means and savoir faire of now would have been available when we started out with a handful of friends.

There are {{NUMBEROFFILES}} [[Special:ListFiles|uploaded files]] but through [[mw:Manual:$wgUseInstantCommons]] many more pictures are available to be used.

There are {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users, which is bit of a problem, because over 64k of those are bot registered accounts from back in the day

There are {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} admins. You know who you are.

Today the wiki is running on [[mw:MediaWiki]] {{CURRENTVERSION}}.

The Consumerium [[development wiki]] turned 20 on Friday 2023-02-24 Fri Feb 24 2023 00:52:00 GMT +0000.<ref group="misc">UNIX timestamp for 20 yrs party is 1677199920</ref> and the [[motivation]] for Consumerium remained the same.

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 [[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|thumb|right|150px|[[mw:MediaWiki]] software has been developed very actively for over 20 yrs and it is vastly more powerful in its capabilities now. It's capabilities can be expanded with [[MediaWiki/extensions]], but one needs to choose carefully and wisely as some permutations of extensions do not work together and some extensions may be difficult to remove after having been installed.]]
+{{Q|It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.|[[w:Søren Kierkegaard]]<ref>[[wikiquote:Søren Kierkegaard#The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s]] (1844)</ref>}}
 Many of the planned [[features]] have already been implemented as services by both profit-maximizing and non-profit-seeking entities during these past 20 years.
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 * [[Knowledge graphs]] consisting of linked data are a complicated field, but necessary for realizing the Consumerium goals.
 * The need to handle conflicting data from alternate data sources arises from using other knowledge graphs.
-* [[mw:Extension:Cargo]] is probably better for this use case than [[mw:Extension:Wikibase]].
+* [[mw:Extension:Cargo]] allows storing and querying structured data in wiki
-* The [[test wiki]] could be reinstalled clean to the latest LTS 1.39 and Cargo installed on it. Or many test wikis could be set up
+* [[mw:Extension:Wikibase]] is what powers [[Wikidata]].
+* The [[test wiki]] could be reinstalled clean to the latest LTS and Cargo installed on it. Or many test wikis could be set up
 * [[kuluttajistow:Etusivu]] - a Finnish language wiki for Finnish Consumerium at the domain Kuluttajisto.fi
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 '''Needs freshening up'''
 * The [[features]] should be updated to as of now and to include what existing services implement some feature, or even better, what friendly data source provides the data with a licensing setup that we can work with.
-* The [[MediaWiki/extensions]] was an attempt at going through all the extensions and scribing up the potential ones. I did this in 2012, so 10 yrs ago and revisiting these extensions would be useful and educating
+* The [[MediaWiki/extensions]] was an attempt at going through all the extensions and scribing up the potential ones. I did this in 2012, so 10 yrs ago and revisiting these extensions would be useful and educating.
-'''THE CURRENT STATE'''
-Uncontested facts: Today is {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} and it is week #{{CURRENTWEEK}}.
-The wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} [[Special:AllPages|pages]] out of which {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} are articles with {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits, but would be structured differently if all the technological means and savoir faire of now would have been available when we started out with a handful of friends.
-There are {{NUMBEROFFILES}} [[Special:ListFiles|uploaded files]] but through [[mw:Manual:$wgUseInstantCommons]] many more pictures are available to be used.
-There are {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users, which is bit of a problem, because over 64k of those are bot registered accounts from back in the day
-There are {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} admins. You know who you are.
-Today the wiki is running on [[mw:MediaWiki]] {{CURRENTVERSION}}.
+'''Analytics<ref>Thank you to [https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/] for the free web site visitor analytics program</ref>'''
 The top 20 articles in the main namespace measured by the number of visits for the year 2022 have been the following:
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 '''HISTORY'''
-{{Q|It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.|[[w:Søren Kierkegaard]]<ref>[[wikiquote:Søren Kierkegaard#The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s]] (1844)</ref>}}
 See [[Timeline of Consumerium]] for info on what has happened during these years that has been significant for the development effort.
@@ Line 67: / Line 56: @@
 [[User:Jukeboksi/log/All Consumerium logs in one]] may also be useful viewing, at least for me, the [[Lowest Troll]]
+'''THE CURRENT STATE'''
+Uncontested facts: Today is {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} and it is week #{{CURRENTWEEK}}.
+The wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} [[Special:AllPages|pages]] out of which {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} are articles with {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits, but would be structured differently if all the technological means and savoir faire of now would have been available when we started out with a handful of friends.
+There are {{NUMBEROFFILES}} [[Special:ListFiles|uploaded files]] but through [[mw:Manual:$wgUseInstantCommons]] many more pictures are available to be used.
+There are {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users, which is bit of a problem, because over 64k of those are bot registered accounts from back in the day
+There are {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} admins. You know who you are.
+Today the wiki is running on [[mw:MediaWiki]] {{CURRENTVERSION}}.
 The Consumerium [[development wiki]] turned 20 on Friday 2023-02-24 Fri Feb 24 2023 00:52:00 GMT +0000.<ref group="misc">UNIX timestamp for 20 yrs party is 1677199920</ref> and the [[motivation]] for Consumerium remained the same.