Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

On 9/6/13, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > The only thing I'm slightly worried about is the data model and > representation > of the metadata. Swapping one backend for another will only work if they are > conceptually compatible. The data model I was using was simple key-value pairs. Specifically it was

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

This looks great. I know a few sites that are already screenscraping for our license info, so this will be a huge help for them. I noticed, however, that the API currently doesn't support the attribution parameter of the licensing templates (where it specifies the attribution string). I'm sure this

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

I can offer this demo (quickly ported from toolserver, which now refuses to run it): http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/commonsapi.php Far from perfect, but to show what could be done now. If anyone's interested in helping me develop it, I'll make it a "real" tool on Labs. Cheers, Magnus On

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

I'm just throwing some ideas out there, in hope of inspiring you: Things you might want to consider (at least in the design) of this API/Extension, might be: multi licensing, derivative and/or 'companion' linking (subtitle files, cropping etc, the pictured object) and their copyrights, keeping tra

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

Hi Brian! I like the idea of a metadata API very much. Being able to just replace the scraping backend with Wikidata (as proposed) later seems a good idea. I see no downside as long as no extra work needs to be done on the templates and wikitext, and the API could even be used later to port in

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

> I'm somewhat of a newb though with extracting microformat style > metadata, so its quite possible there is a better way, or some higher > level parsing library I could use (Something like xpath maybe, > although its not really xml I'm looking at). > I am not really proficient with that either ;

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

On 4 sep. 2013, at 18:59, Brian Wolff wrote: > On 9/1/13, Jean-Frédéric wrote: > [..] >> >>> The downside to this is in order to effectively get metadata out of >>> commons given the current practises, one essentially has to screen >>> scrape and do slightly ugly things >>> >> >> This [1] lo

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

On 09/04/2013 09:59 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: >> This [1] looks quite acrobatic indeed. Can’t we make better use of the >> machine-readable markings provided by templates? >> >> >> [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80403/4/Commons

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

On 9/1/13, Jean-Frédéric wrote: [..] > >> The downside to this is in order to effectively get metadata out of >> commons given the current practises, one essentially has to screen >> scrape and do slightly ugly things >> > > This [1] looks quite acrobatic indeed. Can’t we make better use of the >

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

On 8/31/13, James Forrester wrote: > However, how much more work would it be to insert it directly into Wikidata > right now? I worry about doing the work twice if Wikidata could take it now > - presumably the hard work is the reliable screen-scraping, and building > the tool-chain to extract from

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

Hi Brian, I've been working on an api module/extension to extract metadata from > commons image description pages, and display it in the API. Awesome! > The downside to this is in order to effectively get metadata out of > commons given the current practises, one essentially has to screen > sc

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

Gerard Meijssen wrote: >Wikidata is able to support a subset of properties needed for infoboxes. >The technology is however implemented on several Wikipedias. Recently it >became available for use on Wikivoyage. > >The support for interwiki links is well established on both Wikivoyage and >Wikipedi

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

Hoi, Wikidata is able to support a subset of properties needed for infoboxes. The technology is however implemented on several Wikipedias. Recently it became available for use on Wikivoyage. The support for interwiki links is well established on both Wikivoyage and Wikipedia. Probably much of th

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:02 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > I think a parallel question might be: is Wikidata, as a social or > technical project, able and ready to accept such data? I haven't been > following Wikidata's progress too much, but I thought the focus was > currently infoboxes, following interw

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

James Forrester wrote: >However, how much more work would it be to insert it directly into >Wikidata right now? I think a parallel question might be: is Wikidata, as a social or technical project, able and ready to accept such data? I haven't been following Wikidata's progress too much, but I thou

Re: [Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

On 31 August 2013 03:10, Brian Wolff wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been working on an api module/extension to extract metadata from > commons image description pages, and display it in the API. I know > this is an area that various people have thought about from time to > time, so I thought it would

[Wikitech-l] A metadata API module for commons

Hi all, I've been working on an api module/extension to extract metadata from commons image description pages, and display it in the API. I know this is an area that various people have thought about from time to time, so I thought it would be of interest to this list. The specific goals I have: