On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Brianna
Laugher<brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/7/23 Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Ryan
Lane<rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Check out how the Flickr API works. Users can
give web and desktop
apps privileges (read/write/delete).
It isn't really that bizarre of a concept.
Read/write/delete access to what? The only cases where read access
would be relevant would be what, watchlist and preferences, pretty
much? I don't think we'd want this for editing, or admin-only stuff
like viewing deleted pages.
Eh? I do. Else why bother even having a write API? Why bother even
having the login aspect to the API?
I can imagine someone building an alternative edit interface for a
subset of Wikipedia content, say a WikiProject. Then the interface can
strip away all the general crud and just provide information relevant
to that topic area.
And moving slightly away from "editing", Flickr could have an "upload
to Wikimedia Commons" application which integrates nicely into their
UI, and retaining a link in their system to indicate the name of the
file over on Commons.
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John Vandenberg