I had tweak a bunch of code to even get it to work, not to mention replace a whole bunch of deprecated functions. People seem to love those these days. I’m in the process of taking over a script from Chris G Bot, and again lots of deprecated functions. :/ I can try to see if I can unlock the namespace lock, but I need to find out where that is happening.
As for xTools, with a temporary solution now in place for articleinfo, I believe we can start working on a rewrite for xtools. We already have smarty templates, so interface shouldn’t be a major concern. I propose we break the workload up tools, and assign an individual tool to a user, while one other user writes the code for communicating to the proper medium to get results. Another idea is to write a Communication class and put it in a file call communincation.php. It will essentially do all the querying needed to get the results in one go for any tool. This means that all the query strings for the API and the DB, will be saved in this class. I think this is a preferred solution as this will allow us to easily make necessary changes to queries in response to any API or DB changes we encounter, without having to sift through the code. Another thing I propose is the addition of a configuration file such as config.local.inc.php and config.inc.php. This would be the location where hardcoded OAuth settings and file paths would be stored, or anything hardcoded that may need to be modified to move the tool. This will allow us to make the tool mobile and allow us to be able to set up a local installation about as fast as it takes to say “pi”. If anyone has some objections, I can start fashioning up some efficient communication codes and create the class, as well as some things to put in the config file.
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From: xtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:xtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of MusikAnimal
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [xTools] Wikihistory is here
Awesome!!!! Great work Max! :)
I've updated [[MediaWiki:Histlegend]] to link to this for mainspace pages, and to the old xtools for other namespaces, as I figure that's better than the "article not found" message WikiHistory throws.
So I assume it's probably too much work to make this work for any namespace? Seemingly it would not be, as the API is uniform for any namespace... but hell if I'd know :)
Kudos!
On 21 July 2015 at 21:12, L235 Wikipedia <l235@l235.net> wrote:
Congratulations - have you made an on-wiki announcement?
Regards from Chansha, Hunan Province, China
L235
On Wednesday, July 22, 2015, Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr@gmail.com> wrote:
Ladies and gentlemen. Wikihistory is now available for use on en.wikipedia.org. You can find it at http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/wikihistory/ J
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