[Labs-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

[Maximilian Doerr]

Peachy works for both.

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> On Dec 8, 2014, at 11:04, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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