For later. As discussed before, access via HTTP is probably hardly an option for the Wikimedia wikis (and they are our priority), but for other wikis that will be crucial.
Cheers, Denny 2013/2/18 Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> > 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 > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. 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
