2019/Grants/Promnesia
Title:
Promnesia
Name:
Jindrich Kolman
Wikimedia username:
E-mail address:
kolmanjindrich5
gmail.com
Resume:
https://cz.linkedin.com/in/jindrich-kolman-977232128
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QOD-FeTGgR-WZp2BcRLptuvtHivL-P5CSdejJU9KPwo/edit?usp=sharing
Geographical impact:
global
Type of project:
Technology
What is your idea?
A single web browser extension for displaying third-party contextual information from multiple sources
Why is it important?
Currently, two projects in the list of list grant applications independently propose to build a web browser extension with overlapping functionality. However, we already have a suitable browser extension, so developing yet more extensions is wasteful in terms of developer effort, and, more importantly, in terms of end-user reach.
Is your project already in progress?
https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia is already well-estabilished, with estimated hundreds of users, and it is under active development. It's main developer uses it daily.
How is it relevant to credibility and Wikipedia? (max 500 words)
credibility and wikipedia is a small subtopic of the larger issue of the idea of "read write web". Other projects trying to give web browser users an alternative opinion exist. Approaches range from trying to provide centralized sources of website ratings and "disinformation warnings" to more sensible, P2P approaches.
What is the ultimate impact of this project?
Increased ease of reaching and retaining end-users for projects relying on in-browser third-party information sharing, and greatly decreased development efforts.
Could it scale?
easily
Why are you the people to do it?
I (grant proposal author) am familiar with the codebase and have a vision for how to extend it to become *the* single contextual information sidebar for multiple uses. We are not looking for financial support though, and would rather appreciate establishing a discussion with the other projects.
What is the impact of your idea on diversity and inclusiveness of the Wikimedia movement?
Sorry, it does not currently concern wikipedia directly
What are the challenges associated with this project and how you will overcome them?
It is a technically simple task, and we have the know-how. The question is, who will execute it.
How much money are you requesting?
$5000
How will you spend the money?
$5000-$10000 should be enough to pose as a bounty for the job of extending the current code to support multiple, user-configurable data sources, to help align the functionality for the other projects, and to document the protocol/data format.
How long will your project take?
1-2 months
Have you worked on projects for previous grants before?
no