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
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Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/