Forward to mobile-l, forget to press "answer all" :)
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Von: Florian Schmidt [mailto:florian.schmidt.welzow@t-online.de]
Gesendet: Montag, 8. Dezember 2014 20:46
An: 'Dan Garry'
Betreff: AW: [WikimediaMobile] CommonsMetadata API returning HTML?
First: That looks great! Maybe a good input for mobile web, too :)
I remember a similar problem for mobile media viewer (you see the author of an image, too,
if returned by commonsmeta api). The problem is, iirc, that the html is in the input (the
template used on commons to describe images where the information is extracted from), so
CommonsMeta has to strip the html out, like the app do it locally. I don't know, what
would be the best way :/
Kind regards / Freundliche Grüße
Florian
Von: mobile-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mobile-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im
Auftrag von Dan Garry
Gesendet: Montag, 8. Dezember 2014 20:31
An: Multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org; mobile-l
Betreff: Re: [WikimediaMobile] CommonsMetadata API returning HTML?
Sorry, the example query I provided was incorrect. Use this instead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&form…
Thanks,
Dan
On 8 December 2014 at 11:29, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Greetings, Multimedia Team!
Background: The Mobile Apps Team is working on a restyling of the way content the first
fold of content is presented in the Wikipedia app. You can see this image to see what this
looks like. Having a high-resolution image so prominently at the top of the page will
likely drive a lot of clicks, so we're working on a lightweight image viewer to deal
with file pages, which are poorly styled monstrosities on the mobile app. We're going
to use the CommonsMetadata API to help us out. :-)
Problem: The CommonsMetadata API can sometimes return HTML [1]. Having HTML in the API
response is a bit problematic for us. Native apps make next to no use of HTML when
creating links or layouts, so we have to strip the HTML from every API response, lest it
be displayed as plaintext to the user. In the short term this is fine, we can strip it and
throw the information away. But in the long run it'd be better if the API didn't
return HTML.
Our ask: Can the CommonsMetadata API please not return HTML in its responses? :-)
Thanks,
Dan
[1]: Run this query, and look at "artist" key. The API response has an HTML link
in it.
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation