Thanks Sumana. Please, let me also introduce two other members of Wikia's team that will contribute to this first step: Jakub Olek and Owen Davis.
We're very excited for this opportunity to work together with the Foundation and the community revolving around it! On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected] > wrote: > A few weeks ago, a few Wikia and Wikimedia people started talking about > rewriting MediaWiki's web API for greater flexibility, usability, and > standardization. Notes from that meeting: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API/API_rewrite/Kickoff_meeting > > Federico Lucignano is one of the main developers on this effort. He > will be doing API stuff for Wikia for the next 5 months. Wikia wants to > attract motivated app developers and companies using Wikia's products to > use the API. They also want to make the APIs more standards-compliant > (a RESTful interface, using HTTP verbs), but that's a high-level goal. > Mobile-related work is first, driving the direction of some of > Federico's work, but this redesign would improve the whole platform, > including the enterprise. > > Wikimedia and Wikia want to work together on this. Wikimedia Foundation > also wants to avoid boxing ourselves into special-purpose, specific > apps. Right now we're in the very early stages and I believe Wikia's > going to put out an RFC -- the initial research we discussed during the > kickoff meeting is starting this week. > > Some people have also begun talking about this issue on the bug " Make > MediaWiki more RESTful": > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41837 in case you want to > check that out. > > Welcome, Federico! > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > -- --- Federico "Lox" Lucignano Senior Lead Engineer - Mobile Team Wikia sp.z.o.o. email: [email protected] web: Lox-o-Drome <http://lox-o-drome.blogspot.com>
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