[Toolserver-l] Simple Geohack-like tool for CAS numbers

[Annabel]

I guess it is a good idea to contact user Beetstra on the English wikipedia. He has been busy in the past with writing a plugin for mediawiki for this task. It seemed a hard job to implement such a thing practically in mediawiki. I do not know the current state of his project, but you may want to ask him (if there is not a direct chance that it will be implemented and included in mediawiki, I guess that the code could be relatively easy converted to a toolserver tool)

Regards
Annabel

[[w:nl:Gebruiker:Annabel]]


PS: c'est vraiment un modèle magnifique à la wikipédia française ;)


----- Original Message ----
From: Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom at gmail.com>
To: Toolserver mailing list <toolserver-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2008 8:19:43 PM
Subject: [Toolserver-l] Simple Geohack-like tool for CAS numbers

Hello,

CAS numbers are used to identify chemical compounds [1]. Someone on
fr.wp has created a template for CAS numbers; it uses the CAS number
as a parameter and outputs some links to several resources/databases
[2]. The thing is, although these links might be useful, the articles
aren't really the good place for them.

I was wondering if someone from this list would be willing to write a
simple tool on the toolserver à la GeoHack. The tool would do exactly
what the template is doing right now, i.e. it would check the validity
of the input and would output a few links [3]. The template would then
be modified to simply link to this tool.

This should be pretty easy (I think) and it would avoid displaying all
these links inside the articles. Anyone interested?
Many thanks in advance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_registry_number
[2] example: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide ; look at "N°
CAS" in the infobox and click on the [+] symbol to expand the
template.
[3] current code of the template :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:CAS&action=edit

-- 
Guillaume Paumier
[[m:User:guillom]]
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