2009/1/30 Johannes Beigel <johannes.bei...@pediapress.com>: > On 29.01.2009, at 13:48, Brianna Laugher wrote: > > On Wikimedia Commons a little bit of work has been done to this end: > > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commons_API> > > We've been aware of this page and Magnus' implementation, and we think > it looks really good! > > The information is (AFAIK) scraped from the rendered XHTML of > articles. This could be done in a less error-prone way (and more > efficiently) if the data would be stored and accessed via database in > some way. Of course this would require some discussion, formal > decisions and code changes. But as I stated in an earlier post: I > think MediaWiki is so widely used by people who want to share and > collaborate on free content, that it's not too farfetched to build > some "license infrastracture" into the software itself.
I agree that it makes a lot of sense. But because it would be a big change, I fear that unless the lead developers show great enthusiasm for the idea, it will take a very long time to be accepted and completed. Whereas building an "add-on" tool can be faster to get to point of functionality. It may be a good idea to try and build the Commons API to mimic the MediaWiki API, imagining that in the future such information will be available via that. So then hopefully for now people could use the Commons API, and in the future switch to the MediaWiki API by just changing the API URL, and all their queries could stay the same. How does that sound? Other ideas about how to approach it are welcome... cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
