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-----Messaggio originale----- Da: glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Per conto di Maarten Dammers Inviato: sabato 26 gennaio 2013 19.42 A: glam@lists.wikimedia.org Oggetto: Re: [GLAM] Wiki GLAM Toolset project
Hi Ed,
Op 24-1-2013 12:04, Ed Summers schreef:
So if you are able to use the Commons API to upload materials from the GlamWiki Toolset to the Commons it could be written using any Web framework correct? I guess I'm just wondering if you are constraining yourself a little bit too much by limiting the development to being done as a MediaWiki plugin. If you develop your project as a Mediawiki plugin, I imagine that the more you tailor it to GLAM institutions, the less likely it will be deployed on the commons, since that environment isn't just about GLAMs. But maybe I am being overly pessimistic?
Yes, you are. The development is like the uploadwizard (also an extension to improve uploading).
Does the Wikimedia Labs environment prescribe or strongly encourage you to use Mediawiki as a framework? Are they unwilling to deploy Web applications that are deployed using different technologies, e.g. Rails, Django, etc. Or do some people involved in the GlamWiki Toolset project have a lot of experience developing with MediaWiki, so that is their preference?
No, MediaWiki is the just the preferred framework. We're looking long term here. We want to develop something that is sustainable. An extension is most suitable for that because it really becomes part of our ecosystem. Some external framework is unlikely to be maintained by the WMF in the future.
I guess I was thinking a stand alone application that talked to the commons via the API would be easier to tailor to the GLAM community, without worrying about the politics of getting it deployed. But perhaps you need to do things that aren't possible via the API?
Standalone application? It should always be a web based application. Your making a classic mistake here. It's not about the actual uploading. That's easy, the hard part is the meta data handling.
Maarten
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