For your interest, consideration and API-geeking. Presumably will
involve reading template parameters.
- d.
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From: Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>
Date: 30 Mar 2008 15:10
Subject: [Commons-l] Commons API
To: commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
There is an interesting Firefox extension called Zemanta, that works
with some blogging platforms, to suggest images to match a blog post
you type. One of the sources they use is Commons.
See this post (comments) for a description of how it works and what
it's lacking:
<http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/97/zemanta-wikimedia-commons-for-bloggers>
In particular,
"If you have an idea how to correctly capture wikipedia images
attribution (something that would assure at least 50% correct coverage
from 2.8M images), please help us! ;)"
Really, we can't blame people too much for not providing attribution,
when we don't give that information in a standard way, or give a
standard way of accessing it.
Now is as good a time as any to formally write an API to recommend for
other people to use. Aside from the MediaWiki API, there are three
main things I can think of that are often needed to be automated:
* identify any "problem tags" (files with deletion markers shouldn't
be used or indexed by third parties)
* extract license name(s) and URL for a given file
* extract author attribution string for a given file
So I propose we put our heads together and figure out the most robust
algorithm for each of these, and provide some sample code for each.
I made a start here:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:API>
Contributions and feedback welcome...
cheers,
Brianna
--
They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
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