On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 31/03/2008, Bryan Tong Minh
<bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I already started something some time ago on
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Machine_readability>. It
allows you to extract all information provided by the {{Information}}
template and some other templates.
Nice. I think they can be merged together?
Nope. Your and my API work from an entirely different viewpoint. My
API uses the existing infrastructure of Commons and does not depend on
changes in the software. Your API requires updates to the software,
which is the most ideal model for the future, but impossible to
achieve in a short timespan. Therefore, both should exist separately.
My API is something that works right now and provides a somewhat
straightforward way to fetch information now, but is not sustainable
for the future.
To get to a real working API the first thing we need is to store the
meta data as author, license, etc in the database, rather than putting
it all together in one text field. You don't want an API that parses
text.
Bryan