On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Misha Zaitzeff <misha.zaitzeff(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hello, I hope I'm not being inappropriate posting
to these lists, but
I'm looking to hire a mediawiki expert on a consulting/freelance basis
to help me with a project.
I am developing a website that will serve as a directory for real
estate agents (essentially one page per agent). I'm looking for
somebody to do the following for me:
*Set up the mediawiki software on a server
- This is extremely easy, you could be done with it in a couple of hours.
Visit the MediaWiki FAQ for tips on configuring it. Use my Extension Matrix
for customizing it.
*Help design layout of appropriate templates and other
add-ons
- You can just copy the templates and layout from a wiki with a config that
you already like using copy/paste and Special:ExpandTemplates where needed.
*Write scripts for pywikipediabot, and use it to
translate data into the
wiki
- mwclient is easier to use and much faster than pywikipediabot, which has
significant overhead. Writing a mediawiki bot using mwclient is around 10
lines of python for the simplest cases.
*Assist in writing scripts to datamine the web for
real estate agent
information
BeautifulSoup makes scraping websites very, very easy. You can quickly
become proficient enough to write scrapers in about 5 minutes of analyzing a
site's html.
Please email me to discuss the project further.
Bottom line: You can have your wiki set up in a weekend.
Brian
Thanks,
--Misha Zaitzeff
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