On 12/14/2010 05:40 PM, Platonides wrote:
Ben Schwartz wrote:
> I'd like to make a command-line tool or web-form.
...
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