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

Cons

• Need to code a beautiful frontend to visualize the data
• Need to code a friendlier frontend to edit the data

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/