Dear all,
Two tech news:
1. Amrit (in CC) has converted the Index: pages editing interface to OOjs-UI (the new MediaWiki UI toolkit). It is already live on beta wiki [1] and should be deployed next Wednesday. He does it as part as his Google Summer of Code project [2].
2. Wikidata now provides a new Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle( 'MY PAGE TITLE' ) that allows to retrieve the item which is linked to a given page. It could be use on Wikisource to retrieve, e.g., the item of 'My Book Edition' from the header template of "My Book Edition/Chapter 1", and, so, use the data from the "My Book Edition" item to fill the header template.
Cheers,
Thomas
[1] https://en.wikisource.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Index:Dictionary_o…
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161111
This is an intersting piece on the future of libraries
https://medium.com/doteveryone/how-we-can-help-libraries-and-how-libraries-…
It suggests that libraries become actively neutral spaces where information
can be accessed. It also discusses the role of libraries in the internet
age and how they can be part of it.
Cheers,
Micru