On 09/20/2012 04:34 PM, dan entous wrote: dear all,
as some of you may already know, the GLAMwiki Toolset Project, http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Toolset_project, is a collaboration between Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia France and Europeana, with the goal of providing a set of tools to get materials from GLAM institutions onto Wikimedia Commons in a way that reuse can easily be tracked, and that Commons materials can easily be integrated back into the collection of the original GLAM or even other GLAMs.
as part of our initial goal of creating a GLAM Upload System, we are looking to gather Wikimedia community input on the proposed architecture and technologies. if you have time and interest, please take a look and let us know your thoughts, http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Toolset_project/Request_for_Comments....
with kind regards, dan
On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: Hi Dan,
I have a few questions about the choice of the Zend Framework:
- Why exactly using the Zend Framework?
would like to use an open-source mvc framework that is used widely, has strong community support, and several modules that may be used for current and future development rather than develop or use a custom or less widely used mvc framework
- Do we really need such a dependency?
the code will be dependent on some type of mvc framework - either custom, less or widely used
- Do we have this framework installed on the Wikimedia servers?
not sure, but the gwtoolset will be used on a wikimedia labs instance, not on a wikimedia server. the gwtoolset will have a browser ui that allows glams to upload their metadata, match it to mediawiki templates and then upload the result to commons.wikimedia.org using the mediawiki api
I thought the lab instance was only an incubation environment and that the final goal was to put gwtoolset on the WMF prod. servers. Isn't it?
the final goal, as far as i understand it, is to have it run as its own application in its own environment, similar to the way some applications are running on the current toolserver. i was told that instead of using the toolserver we should use a wikimedia labs instance. would love to hear if this is not the intended outcome.
Emmanuel