Thanks Sumana.
Please, let me also introduce two other members of Wikia's team that will contribute to this first step: Jakub Olek and Owen Davis.
We're very excited for this opportunity to work together with the Foundation and the community revolving around it!
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Sumana Harihareswara
<sumanah@wikimedia.org> wrote:
A few weeks ago, a few Wikia and Wikimedia people started talking about
rewriting MediaWiki's web API for greater flexibility, usability, and
standardization. Notes from that meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API/API_rewrite/Kickoff_meeting
Federico Lucignano is one of the main developers on this effort. He
will be doing API stuff for Wikia for the next 5 months. Wikia wants to
attract motivated app developers and companies using Wikia's products to
use the API. They also want to make the APIs more standards-compliant
(a RESTful interface, using HTTP verbs), but that's a high-level goal.
Mobile-related work is first, driving the direction of some of
Federico's work, but this redesign would improve the whole platform,
including the enterprise.
Wikimedia and Wikia want to work together on this. Wikimedia Foundation
also wants to avoid boxing ourselves into special-purpose, specific
apps. Right now we're in the very early stages and I believe Wikia's
going to put out an RFC -- the initial research we discussed during the
kickoff meeting is starting this week.
Some people have also begun talking about this issue on the bug " Make
MediaWiki more RESTful":
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41837 in case you want to
check that out.
Welcome, Federico!
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Federico "Lox" Lucignano
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Wikia sp.z.o.o.