Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: image information API

2013-03-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I certainly don't want to cookie-lick this usecase for Wikidata / Wikibase, but I think that using the Wikibase extension for this might be easier than it looks. The one major point would be a bit of coding to allow claims for the media namespace. But indeed, right now we do not have the bandwidth

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: image information API

2013-03-11 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: I certainly don't want to cookie-lick this usecase for Wikidata / Wikibase, but I think that using the Wikibase extension for this might be easier than it looks. The one major point would be a bit of coding to

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: image information API

2013-03-10 Thread Yuvi Panda
While I understand that wikibase would be 'ideal' (allowing reads *and* writes), I do not know if the WikiData people have the personell bandwidth to do that. The separate extension outlined in this RFC would be a bit hackish, but still faaar more efficient than the current solution of having to

[Wikitech-l] RFC: image information API

2013-02-25 Thread Max Semenik
Hi, over the time the questions like how do I determine programmatically the license of this image? or who is the author of that video? no, uploader's username is not enough are asked quite regularly, and probably now it's time to fix this. Please take a look here:

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: image information API

2013-02-25 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Feb 25, 2013 9:27 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, over the time the questions like how do I determine programmatically the license of this image? or who is the author of that video? no, uploader's username is not enough are asked quite regularly, and probably now it's time

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: image information API

2013-02-25 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 25/02/13 15:26, Max Semenik wrote: Hi, over the time the questions like how do I determine programmatically the license of this image? or who is the author of that video? no, uploader's username is not enough are asked quite regularly, and probably now it's time to fix this. Please take a

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: image information API

2013-02-25 Thread Helder .
Hi! There is a related page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Files_and_licenses_concept Helder On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, over the time the questions like how do I determine programmatically the license of this image? or who is the author