[Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

[Brion Vibber]

On 8/12/09 6:18 AM, Chad wrote:
> Just thinking aloud here, but as to methods for accessing the content:
>
> A) Extends FileRepo to work with their data, however they happen to give
> us access to it
> B) Provide something similar to Special:Import, that will go retrieve their
> data and import it to a format MediaWiki can handle
>
> Both are certainly feasible with the current code base; it's not going to
> require some massive re-write of anything.

We've already got the latter in the pipeline with Michael Dale's work on 
the add media wizard:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Media_Wizard

This includes the ability to search remote media repositories and import 
particular resources from them into the wiki. In testing this is 
implemented for for instance pulling videos from the Internet Archive's 
video collections (kindly pre-transcoded into Ogg Theora -- thanks IA 
guys and gals!)

As this matures some more and the backend support gets merged into our 
live deployment, this'll be rolled into the advanced editing tools the 
Usability crew is working on.

-- brion