Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Krinkle
I also have a home-grown framework: https://github.com/Krinkle/toollabs-base Originally created for my Toolserver tools. Recently rewritten for Tool Labs. A few example tools: * https://tools.wmflabs.org/orphantalk/ * https://tools.wmflabs.org/usage/?action=usage&group=Krinkle * https://tools.wm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Magnus Manske
Just to chime in here, my tools (the ones that generate HTML from PHP, that is) are all based on the same style code, so it would be easy to change them centrally. That said, much of the per-tool styles are based on bootstrap, so using something else would mean changing a lot of them. I just hit 1

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Brian Wolff
On Dec 8, 2014 5:10 PM, "svetlana" wrote: > > In my view, if a Labs tool is a success, it should be written as a wiki Extension and deployed to relevant wikis. What you're saying essentially means that there is a need to make the wiki truly extensible without much pain. Thats not neccesarily true

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread James Forrester
On 8 December 2014 at 13:10, svetlana wrote: > - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI for example, but people insist > it's not ready for production and is internal to Visual Editor folks. > Quoting James: > > OOUI is not stable enough to encourage people to use it full-tilt (we > make breaking

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread svetlana
In my view, if a Labs tool is a success, it should be written as a wiki Extension and deployed to relevant wikis. What you're saying essentially means that there is a need to make the wiki truly extensible without much pain. - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI for example, but people insist

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Petr Bena
Yes please provide some links to all these solutions if you can I will try to reuse as much as possible On Dec 8, 2014 5:51 PM, "Platonides" wrote: > I coded such frameworks some years ago. It was based on MediaWiki code, > so it (a) looked similar to MW code, (b) would be easier to port if it wa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Structured data: use of schema.org's structured data for Wikisource works (or similar)

2014-12-08 Thread James Forrester
On 6 December 2014 at 22:36, Wiki Billinghurst wrote: > 2) if the schema.org metadata is a preferred means to progress, what > is the recommended means to progress such an issue > I hesitate to mention it, as ​I'm aware that this is likely to start a debate with lots of heat and little light, bu

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, It's been some time since we launched tool labs and there is incredible number of tools now. They all however have 2 major problems. Every tool has own, different layout / css style (which may be confusing the users of these tools) and every developer of these tools probably have to reinvent a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crowdfunding a Calendar

2014-12-08 Thread Quim Gil
Fixed, thank you: Wednesday 10 December at 15:00 UTC A proper announcement will come. In the meantime, you can check https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76522 On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Lewis Cawte wrote: > Hi all, > > So I figure we all need to band together and crowd fund a calendar for

[Wikitech-l] Crowdfunding a Calendar

2014-12-08 Thread Lewis Cawte
Hi all, So I figure we all need to band together and crowd fund a calendar for whoever is responsible for this little gem - https://i.imgur.com/UaLgRXX.png On a more serious note - is the downtime on Wednesday the 10th, or Friday the 12th? -- Lewis ___