Forward more information to WolframAlpha

[nielstron]

The user now has the choice to provide additional data to the wolframalpha knowledge engine.
This feature only works if either the official Mycroft api gets updated or the user provides his own appID.

Given the official api gets upgraded or you enter an api_key in the config file wolframalpha now receives plenty of additional data.
Assumptions based on your settings for date formats
Location based on your settings in home.mycroft, given you add the key 'forward_location' : true to the configuration
Automatic unit conversion based on your preferences in home.mycroft

[penrods]

I like this idea! A couple comments and thoughts on the implementation:

• I want to avoid telling users to manually edit their mycroft.conf file (which is really an old mechanism that exists for historical reasons). If it is experimental, you can talk about it in comments (which programmers would read), but I'd rather move all options toward the skill settings and the settingsjson.meta.

• The settingsmeta.json doesn't support checkboxes yet (that is on the plate for @augustnmonteiro to do soon!). For today we need to present a "text" field where the user can type "true" or "false" based on clear instructions in a label above it. Then in the future you can easily switch the data type to a "bool" (checkbox) once that is available.

You can see an example of settingsmeta.json in the weather skill:
https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-weather/blob/master/settingsmeta.json
In this case I used explicit instructions in place of a combobox with three options.

[penrods]

One more thing, @nielstron -- thanks for helping with the Mycroft project! We do welcome
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[nielstron]

Okay I'd happy to help, in the end my mycroft is working better too ;)

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