Or WTF sounds like a funny name as well :P On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, since we are two now, we got a team, YAY! Let's invent some name > for this and create a repository somewhere gerrit/github? I myself > like name "eggie" as this would be something like an "egg tool" that a > real tool would hatch from. But better name can be used if you can > think of something :) > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Jason Spriggs <[email protected]> wrote: >> This sounds like a great idea! I'm down to help (I've done PHP and web front >> end work before). >> >> ~Jason >> >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It's been some time since we launched tool labs and there is >>> incredible number of tools now. They all however have 2 major >>> problems. Every tool has own, different layout / css style (which may >>> be confusing the users of these tools) and every developer of these >>> tools probably have to reinvent a wheel at some point as they all have >>> to do some common tool setup - eg. they have to create some basic php >>> skeleton that would access wikimedia resources, from databases, >>> memcache, reddis to API's and so on. >>> >>> What about creating some common uniform framework in php that, just as >>> pywikipediabot that is used to create bots, would be used to create >>> web-based tools. So that maintainer of a tool would just fork or clone >>> this framework and wouldn't have to spend their time creating >>> functions that would generate html pages with wikimedia uniform style >>> (similar to how vector looks, for example, or just any uniform style, >>> so that tools would look similar), access wikimedia databases, OAuth, >>> ldap, API... >>> >>> I believe it would not just make creation of new tools incredibly >>> simple, but it would also make all tools have consistent look and >>> feel, and thus improve the end user experience. What you think? Is >>> there someone who would like to work on that? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Labs-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >>
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