[Labs-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

[Krinkle]

I also have a home-grown framework:
https://github.com/Krinkle/toollabs-base

Originally created for my Toolserver tools. Recently rewritten for Tool Labs.

A few example tools:

* https://tools.wmflabs.org/orphantalk/
* https://tools.wmflabs.org/usage/?action=usage&group=Krinkle
* https://tools.wmflabs.org/intuition/
* https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiinfo/
* https://tools.wmflabs.org/snapshots/

Some Tool Labs oriented features:

* Interface for LabsDB.
* Interface for Wikimedia wikis.
* Integration with Intuition for localisation.
* Integration with tool-labs Redis for caching.

Some back-end features:
* Caching layers (Redis, FileSystem, Memory).
* LocalSettings-driven (ala MediaWiki).
* Incorporates MediaWiki's Html.php, Sanitizer.php, GitInfo.php.
* HttpRequest interface.

Front-end features:
* Bootstrap
* jQuery

Having said that, it's a pile of shitty hacks. I'd be happy to collaborate on something else.

— Krinkle

On 8 Dec 2014, at 15:30, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> 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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