Project:WikiBase-OpenFoodFacts

This projects aims at evaluating the pros and cons of using Wikimedia, Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client, the software running Wikidata to operate OpenFoodFacts.

In short, this software enables a collaborative structured data wiki, which is what OpenFoodFacts is about. The pros mainly revolve about the vitality of the codebase and the ecosystem. However, Wikibase lacks certain features that are unique to OpenFoodFacts.

This page is aimed at listing the pros and cons, and evaluating the feasibility.

Pros

• Powerful Revision history
• Structured data
• Easy to add new fields
• Integrated API
• Unique identifier in case two products share the same barcode (barcode demoted as a mere value)
• Integrated synonym and translation support
• Ability to link to wikis
• Ability to reuse the data for products in a easy to edit wiki
• Vitality of the codebase
• Vitality of the ecosystem
• System to enable gamification exist for wikidata
• Ability to have a product be composed of two other products
• Ability to have a product be composed of elements (we can define ingredients as entities)

Cons

• Need to code a beautiful frontend to visualize the data
• Need to code a friendlier frontend to edit the data
• faire un OFF par dessus un wikibase c'est un très gros boulot pour arrivée à la parité fonctionnelle comme tu dis
• il y a un risque pour que qq chose qu'on veut faire ne soit pas modélisable dans wikibase
• il y a un risque pour qu'au niveau performance ça ne tienne pas la route pour le genre de requêtes qu'on fait sur OFF (par exemple toute la navigation par facettes)

Feature developpement needed for feature parity

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Repository
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImportFreeImages
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiGrok
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend
• http://wikiba.se/