On 31 August 2013 03:10, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I've been working on an api module/extension to extract metadata from
commons image description pages, and display it in the API. I know
this is an area that various people have thought about from time to
time, so I thought it would be of interest to this list.
This looks rather fun. For VisualEditor, we'd quite like to be able to
pull in the description of a media file in the page's language when it's
inserted into the page, to use as the default caption for images. I was
assuming we'd have to wait for the port of this data to Wikidata, but this
would be hugely helpful ahead of that. :-)
However, how much more work would it be to insert it directly into Wikidata
right now? I worry about doing the work twice if Wikidata could take it now
- presumably the hard work is the reliable screen-scraping, and building
the tool-chain to extract from this just to port it over to Wikidata in a
few months' time would be a pity.
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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