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 write their code,
that would be a great improvement for them, and in the long term also for us,
the data maintainers too. After all, the open nature is one of the beauties of
MediaWiki + SMW.
Also, before discovering SMWAskAPI I wrote custom extensions to query SMW
through the MediaWiki API for the above reason, and I guess more people have
been doing that.
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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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