Annabel wrote: > I guess it is a good idea to contact user Beetstra on the English wikipedia. > He has been busy in the past with writing a plugin for mediawiki for this > task. It seemed a hard job to implement such a thing practically in > mediawiki. I do not know the current state of his project, but you may want > to ask him (if there is not a direct chance that it will be implemented and > included in mediawiki, I guess that the code could be relatively easy > converted to a toolserver tool)
In fact, I think it would be easy to generalize this into a system where you can pair any page (template) with any parameter; that could even be used to replace Special:BookSources . I already have something similar. > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Guillaume Paumier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Toolserver mailing list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2008 8:19:43 PM > Subject: [Toolserver-l] Simple Geohack-like tool for CAS numbers > > Hello, > > CAS numbers are used to identify chemical compounds [1]. Someone on > fr.wp has created a template for CAS numbers; it uses the CAS number > as a parameter and outputs some links to several resources/databases > [2]. The thing is, although these links might be useful, the articles > aren't really the good place for them. > > I was wondering if someone from this list would be willing to write a > simple tool on the toolserver à la GeoHack. The tool would do exactly > what the template is doing right now, i.e. it would check the validity > of the input and would output a few links [3]. The template would then > be modified to simply link to this tool. > > This should be pretty easy (I think) and it would avoid displaying all > these links inside the articles. Anyone interested? > Many thanks in advance. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_registry_number > [2] example: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide ; look at "N° > CAS" in the infobox and click on the [+] symbol to expand the > template. > [3] current code of the template : > http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:CAS&action=edit > _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l
