On 28/08/11 22:55, Yaron Koren wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The "SMWAskAPI" extension adds an action to the MediaWiki API, "ask",
> that lets you call SMW queries via api.php:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SMWAskAPI
>
> I didn't think such a thing was necessary, since the Special:Ask pag
I definitely agree that SMWAskAPI belongs in the core. When we think of keeping
code as small and lean as possible we should consider not just the in-site
code, but also that of client sites and applications using our data elsewhere.
If clients can do with one wrapper library instead of two to
Thanks for the feedback. Just to clarify, I didn't write the extension -
Pierre Mz did.
-Yaron
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Yury Katkov wrote:
> Great job!
>
> I had a great need in such an extension! I'll try to write a small wrapper
> for aks-api for pywikipediabot - if it ends up to be n
Great job!
I had a great need in such an extension! I'll try to write a small wrapper
for aks-api for pywikipediabot - if it ends up to be nice I'll make it
opensource.
Yury
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Yaron Koren wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The "SMWAskAPI" extension adds an action to the
I'm not sensitive to the consequences for code size, but I can tell you that
my plan for working around the lack of built-in uniqueness checking for
properties will probably involve a bot querying for duplicates, and then
removing them, discussed here:
http://old.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?pos
Hi everyone,
The "SMWAskAPI" extension adds an action to the MediaWiki API, "ask", that
lets you call SMW queries via api.php:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SMWAskAPI
I didn't think such a thing was necessary, since the Special:Ask page
basically functions as an API already, if you use
