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Da: glam-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Per conto di Maarten Dammers
Inviato: sabato 26 gennaio 2013 19.42
A: glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Oggetto: Re: [GLAM] Wiki GLAM Toolset project
Hi Ed,
Op 24-1-2013 12:04, Ed Summers schreef:
So if you are able to use the Commons API to upload
materials from the
GlamWiki Toolset to the Commons it could be written using any Web
framework correct? I guess I'm just wondering if you are constraining
yourself a little bit too much by limiting the development to being
done as a MediaWiki plugin. If you develop your project as a Mediawiki
plugin, I imagine that the more you tailor it to GLAM institutions,
the less likely it will be deployed on the commons, since that
environment isn't just about GLAMs. But maybe I am being overly
pessimistic?
Yes, you are. The development is like the uploadwizard (also an
extension to
improve uploading).
Does the Wikimedia Labs environment prescribe or strongly encourage
you to use Mediawiki as a framework? Are they unwilling to deploy Web
applications that are deployed using different technologies, e.g.
Rails, Django, etc. Or do some people involved in the GlamWiki Toolset
project have a lot of experience developing with MediaWiki, so that is
their preference?
No, MediaWiki is the just the preferred framework. We're
looking long term
here. We want to develop something that is sustainable.
An extension is most suitable for that because it really becomes part of our
ecosystem. Some external framework is unlikely to be maintained by the WMF
in the future.
I guess I was thinking a stand alone application that talked to the
commons via the API would be easier to tailor to the GLAM community,
without worrying about the politics of getting it deployed. But
perhaps you need to do things that aren't possible via the API?
Standalone
application? It should always be a web based application.
Your making a classic mistake here. It's not about the actual uploading.
That's easy, the hard part is the meta data handling.
Maarten
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