On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
Brianna Laugher schrieb:
I agree that it makes a lot of sense. But because it would be a big change, I fear that unless the lead developers show great enthusiasm for the idea, it will take a very long time to be accepted and completed. Whereas building an "add-on" tool can be faster to get to point of functionality.
Guys, before re-inventing several wheels, please look at what we already have.
Please have a look at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tag_categories, which defines a way to make license tags machine readable. Using that scheme, it would be easy to build a script on the toolserver that delivers metadata in a machine readable form. No need for screen scraping.
Yes there is. Not for the license name (which I get using categories in my experimental API), but for things like name of author etc. These are only available as either HTML tag IDs (which I use) or raw wikitext.
Magnus