On Dec 8, 2014 5:10 PM, "svetlana" <svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au> wrote:
In my view, if a Labs tool is a success, it should be written as a wiki
Extension
and deployed to relevant wikis. What you're saying essentially
means that there is a need to make the wiki truly extensible without much
pain.
Thats not neccesarily true. There are many different types of tools with
different criteria for success. Some may be appropriate to be turned into
an extension, but some arent.
A wrapper library that exports a mediawiki like interface for tools so that
a tool could easily be ported to an extension would be really cool. However
that's not neccesarily what petrb is proposing (although that is one way to
implement what he's proposing)
- I believe Wikibase (Wikidata) is meant to make
database operations
easier. I have no idea what database toolkits they provide (you
may want to
check with wikidata-l).
--
Surely generic db abstraction layer is not wikibase's primary function...
--bawolff