[Labs-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

[Petr Bena]

That is interesting, but I am not talking about a bot framework, but a
tool framework. eg. something that would be like a set of classes
which would contain functions to handle everything that tool (not bot)
developers needs, from html page generating to API, local db etc. So,
I think this would be something else than "Peachy" thing.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Bruce Myers <bruce at brucemyers.com> wrote:
> Check out Peachy.
>
>
> On 14-12-08 10:30 AM, Petr Bena wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It's been some time since we launched tool labs and there is
> incredible number of tools now. They all however have 2 major
> problems. Every tool has own, different layout / css style (which may
> be confusing the users of these tools) and every developer of these
> tools probably have to reinvent a wheel at some point as they all have
> to do some common tool setup - eg. they have to create some basic php
> skeleton that would access wikimedia resources, from databases,
> memcache, reddis to API's and so on.
>
> What about creating some common uniform framework in php that, just as
> pywikipediabot that is used to create bots, would be used to create
> web-based tools. So that maintainer of a tool would just fork or clone
> this framework and wouldn't have to spend their time creating
> functions that would generate html pages with wikimedia uniform style
> (similar to how vector looks, for example, or just any uniform style,
> so that tools would look similar), access wikimedia databases, OAuth,
> ldap, API...
>
> I believe it would not just make creation of new tools incredibly
> simple, but it would also make all tools have consistent look and
> feel, and thus improve the end user experience. What you think? Is
> there someone who would like to work on that?
>
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