On 12/14/2010 05:40 PM, Platonides wrote:
Ben Schwartz wrote:
I'd like to make a command-line tool or web-form.
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Is there something like this already that I could use as a basis?
I don't think that's appropiate as a single web form. You would want to make it a Wizard with several steps, so you don't make him record a video just to then tell "We already have that page".
Oh, good idea... although an AJAXy webform could also serve that purpose.
Neil may be interested on this. He recently made the UploadWizard.
I hadn't heard of this extension, but it looks interesting. I presume it's not yet active on the actual Commons?
*: Ideally I'd like to be able to help users who don't yet have accounts to make accounts, and also somehow automatically handle the account-linking business between Commons, Wiktionary, etc.
That's not really a problem. All of these steps could be handled quite easily.
If this were a web form, how would I handle username+password securely?
This is best done in an extension.
Can a single extension span Commons and Wiktionary? Would I have to convince both of them to install my extension before I can use it? I had planned to prototype this on a third-party server, precisely to avoid interfering with the real infrastructure. I'm trying to minimize the number of required clicks, so I'd hate to push people through a multi-step upload wizard on one site, and then a separate definition-page-creation wizard on another site.
Thanks, Ben