[Commons-l] Flommons!

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 16:58:42 UTC 2007


Magnus Manske wrote:
> So I'm learning Perl now. So I needed a project to sharpen my
> programming claws with. So I remembered people not happy with the
> MediaWiki commons interface. So I thought I'd steal from the best and
> wrote a new one.
> 
> Flickr-Like cOMMONS = Flommons

Nice work

> * Can be slooow at times, since there's no index on img_user/img_user_text
How does MW handle that then? Or do you mean on the toolserver? (=poke DaB)

> * No login or upload (yet?)
> * Normal blue links stay in Flommons, light-blue links go to Commons
You should add red-links (or is it light-red?) for non-existing pages 
(as most image talk).

> The thing is a single Perl script. Maybe I should go and rewrite
> MediaWiki like that. Oh wait... (anyone aroung long enough to get this
> joke?)
easy: [[Mediawiki#History]]
But wait... how is it you're learning Perl *now*?

> Magnus
> 
> P.S.: Comments always welcome :-)

Is it viewable?  common.php?common_source=flommons.pl is blank ;)

PS: {{CopyrightByWikimedia}} images doesn't show license, i guess they 
pd? :D




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