Hello All,

Thanks for catching me up on the history. I want to make you aware that I've just launched a proposal on Wikipedia's Village Pump [1] to write a bot to integrate VIAF numbers into creator articles. If you're active on Wikipedia (or not) I'd appreciate your commentary on-wiki.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Authority_Control_Integration


Thanks,

Max Klein
Wikipedia in Residence
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tomas Saorin
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 10:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] The history of Code4Lib and MediaWiki development.

I think Wikipedia needs Mediawiki offers any kind of tools to markup text
to repurposing article contents for different reading levels. That is,
parse the article's text and generate a link to "Kids version" or "Teen
version". Mixing automatic text processing and human tags.

But perhaps these are the kind of things that one could manage with
Semantic Mediakiwi.

Tomás Saorín
Murcia University. Spain


2012/6/10 stuart yeates <[log in to unmask]>

> On 09/06/12 06:18, Klein,Max wrote:
>
>> I was just wondering if there have been any efforts from Code4Lib into
>> MediaWiki development? I know that there have been some Wikipedia
>> templates and bots designed to interface with library services. Yet what
>> about cold hard MediaWiki extensions? Has there been any discussion on
>> this, any ideas raised?
>>
>
> Do you have any specific examples of things that can't be done with
> templates (good for holding information), bots (good for adding, curating
> and maintaining information) or CSS (good for displaying information) that
> can be done using a MediaWiki extension?
>
> The road to get a MediaWiki extension stable enough, tested enough,
> trusted enough and needed enough for it to get rolled out on Wikipedia is
> long and hard and I wouldn't recommend it unless you have the most
> cast-iron of use-cases.
>
> If the ISBN support were proposed today, I strongly suspect that it won't
> make it in today. Of course it's now grandfathered in and removing support
> seems very, very, unlikely.
>
> cheers
> stuart
> --
> Stuart Yeates
> Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/**library/<http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/>
>



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