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 <katkov.ju...@gmail.com> 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 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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