On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 11:57:36AM +0200, dan entous wrote:
the mappings will serve a specific purpose. they will map potentially unique XML metadata formats and standard XML metadata formats to mediawiki template parameters. would the namespace Metadata_mappings, i prefer plural because there will be many mappings, be too generic or would that suffice for everyone?
There are many articles. We use Article:. There are many users. We use User:. It makes little sense to depart from established practice.
i still believe that the use of the user name is important. two or more people could come up with their own version of how to map Rijksmuseum metadata with mediawiki template parameters, so if we continue with this namespacing concept the potential title would be : Metadata_mappings:Dan-nl/Rijksmusem.
But the Rijksmusem isn't a subresource of you. If anything I would suggest having a "base" and enabling subpages so users could add their own mappings, hopefully with more informative titles than just their usernames, like Metadata_mapping:Rijksmusem/No_publication_date or something. (admittedly I made something up but you get the idea)
one thing i forgot to mention was the addition of an extension to the title to help identify the format of the content of the title. we were planning to use .json, so the end title would be : Metadata_mappings:Dan-nl/Rijksmusem.json. would that make sense to everyone?
There's no need for this. Everything in this namespace would be JSON, so putting that information in the title twice would be silly.
i took a look at the current implementation of TemplateData on commons and have not seen it used for the templates we're currently looking at. for now i will look into coding the use of the TemplateData if present and if not, fallback to our current db look-up implementation.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Templa... http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Templa... http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Templa... http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Templa... http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Templa...
It wouldn't be hard to add to these templates, and I've already done it for the Information template, so this would be a good idea to do now-or-soon. Interface with Nazmul, who is Rasel160, who's been working on auto-generating forms for Commons templates in UploadWizard, and see if you can't work together on this :)
Ta,