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 the query formats "csv",
"json" etc. But I was convinced recently that this is in fact an important
feature, for two main reasons: the API makes it easier to create queries,
using the "...fm" formats, like "jsonfm"; and various libraries for running
MediaWiki "bots" are configured for calling api.php specifically.
Any thoughts, then, on adding this code directly into Semantic MediaWiki? I
know there's an overall goal to try to make SMW as small as possible, but
this extension's code is pretty small - here's the main body of code:
http://smwaskapi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smwaskapi/trunk/SMWAskAPI/api/SMWAsk_API.php?revision=2&view=markup
..and its function certainly seems to fit in directly with SMW's core
functionality.
-Yaron
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