-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13.03.2012 17:05, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Even if only for PHP there would be a critical mass, it'd be still > useful to Perl, Python and other developers. For example, I think > it is a common problem to normalize links - e. g., are > "[[Diskussion:ABC_abc#.C3.A4.C3.B6.C3.BC]]" and "[[de:Talk:aBC > abc#äöü]]" pointing at the same resource? Most developers start > with the easy bits and end up with something that works for most of > their use cases, but fails if that line is overstepped (for example > "Image:" -> "File:"). If there was an existing module for this, > you wouldn't have to think about all the fringe cases yourself, but > could base upon the sweat poured by others :-). If Me- diaWiki got > updated, you would just have to look at the changes in the PHP > module and port them to your language of choice.
That is the reason why I occasionally use pywikipedia framework with toolserver tools also... ;) So use the pywikipedia as starting point for such a python library. +1 Last thing I remember to miss (nice to have) was the toolserver notice [1] or a module to check if a given URL is safe (e.g. no "file:///etc/passwd") [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Toolserver_notice -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9gX9IACgkQAXWvBxzBrDDfSwCfUMKiLCrUOLdoGjHUWlsmQE8q K+sAnRChdwZUdkGt13+FG7aXl9gYCxJo =TShd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
