WikiApps
wikiapps – collaboratively creating, editing, and publishing HTML5 web apps in JavaScript
| wikiapps | |
|---|---|
| Status of the proposal | |
| Status | rejected |
| Reason | no support. Pecopteris (talk) 06:49, 19 August 2023 (UTC) |
| Details of the proposal | |
| Project description | A repository of documented, editable, downloadable, open source web apps in HTML5 under a creative commons or GNU license. The structure would be similar to wikibooks but instead of books, each top-level directory would contain an app. Each app would have a home page that would link to further pages, e.g. documentation, discussion about the app, a directory with the latest stable version, another directory with the current developer version etc. The scope would be limited to HTML5 web apps, which would allow readers to easily download a version of an app without bothering with compilers or other tools apart from a web browser. (WikiCode is a project proposal for other programming languages.) The project would benefit in multiple ways from being part of Wikimedia: many users would be familiar with the way this project is organized, there is already a revision history system in place, the apps could include images, audio, video, text sources, and/or data from other projects that are automatically updated, it might be possible to implement a form of documentation generation or literate programming by using wiki markup templates, etc. |
| Is it a multilingual wiki? | many language versions |
| Potential number of languages | each version only one language but many language versions |
| Proposed tagline | Imagine a world in which every single device on the planet is given free access to all kinds of apps. Imagine a world where you can edit all your apps on all your devices. Imagine a world without differences between app users and app programmers. Imagine a world where every app you download is not only a tool but a source of inspiration and an invitation to participate in the app's development. And now imagine to create this world. There is a chance for that. |
| Technical requirements | |
| New features to require | The project would require the possibility to upload active JavaScript code. |
| Interested participants | |
| Martin Kraus (talk) | |
Proposed by
editTy221 (talk) 21:00, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
revised by Martin Kraus (talk) 07:59, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Alternative names
editWikiapps, WikiApps, WikiApplications, WikiPrograms, Apps Wiki
Related projects/proposals
editSourceforge? Google Code? GitHub? Codeplex? So?!? --Ricordisamoa 06:17, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
WikiCode is another project proposal for any programming language; wikiapps is only for HTML5 apps in JavaScript. --Martin Kraus (talk) 01:38, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
wikiapps.wikidot.com: I started this a couple of years ago; but I never put much time into it; some ideas of it went into b:en:Canvas 2D Web Apps --Martin Kraus (talk) 07:58, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
b:en:Canvas 2D Web Apps is a wikibook about HTML5 web apps in JavaScript with the canvas element --Martin Kraus (talk) 01:38, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
literateprograms.org: A wiki for literate programming. Mmmh, I guess that's all I want. Why isn't that part of Wikimedia? --Martin Kraus (talk) 14:54, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Domain names
editwikiapps.org, appswiki.org, ...
- wikiapps.org (redirects to a Wikibooks page) is registered by User:Martin Kraus, who is very willing to hand it over to this project --Martin Kraus (talk) 00:28, 23 February 2014 (UTC)