On 03/05/2013 08:20 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
See
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/glam/2013-March/000361.html &
http://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries/
: "how do we get people from Wikipedia articles to the related offerings
of our local libraries?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Library_resources_box "create a
sidebar box with links to resources about (or by) the topic of a
Wikipedia article in a reader’s library, or in another library a reader
might want to consult."
And more!
"As with most things related to Wikipedia, this service is experimental,
and subject to change (and, hopefully, improvement) over time. I’d love
to hear thoughts and suggestions from users and maintainers of Wikipedia
and libraries."
John, since you said you're new to template-building, you might enjoy
learning about what the new Lua templating system gives you:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual
John asked for his response to be forwarded:
Thanks! The Lua capabilities look interesting. I
could see them
potentially making it possible to eventually implement some or all
of the "smarts" of the service in Wikipedia itself. (Right
now, my templates simply package up some arguments to a CGI-script
forwarder I run on my end, which does the figuring out of what
library to query, how to formulate a query, and what library headings
or other query terms to use, for a given Wikipedia source.)
I hope to publish data and source for my service once things
quiet down a little bit here (right now, I'm keeping pretty busy
with library requests and queries). Though the source isn't
something that can simply be installed and run as-is (it's got some
hooks into Online Books code, and is implemented in Perl), it
might be useful for people looking to port it or do similar applications.
I encourage his source publication sooner rather than later, of course. :)
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation