How useful would it be for Lua to access to the query/content/parser API be?
I am suspecting there could be a lot of creative usages of this, including getting data from the wikidata (which won't have to do anything special to enable this) On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jens Ohlig <jens.oh...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > Am 18.02.2013 um 13:06 schrieb Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>: > > > On 17/02/13 00:44, Luca Martinelli wrote: > >> As of now, we write templates and we put data into them, article by > >> article - but this is going to change during 2013, with the > >> implementation of Wikidata, since we'll put data in the common repo > >> and then just call them on local projects. > >> > >> Is this new prog language going to affect this? I mean, will it help > >> us to write new templates which will call those data more easily? > > > > I believe that some members of the Wikidata team are interested in > > allowing Lua modules to fetch data directly from Wikidata. We have > > added a couple of hooks to Scribunto to support this, but the library > > hasn't been designed or implemented yet, as far as I can tell. > > > It is in the works and I would love if you find the time to review it once > it's up on Gerrit (which should happen this week). > > Lua scripting is indeed a big deal for us at Wikidata — structured data > from Wikidata is available as JSON which can be thrown around and iterated > over as Lua tables. This has the potential to unleash some niftyness in > Wikidata-based Infobox templates. > > -- > Jens Ohlig > Software developer Wikidata project > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Obentrautstr. 72 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
