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 <ya...@wikiworks.com> 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 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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