I sent this message into wikitech-l; I presume it's better to share content
with wikisource people too.
As you know, wikisource needs robust, well-defined data, and there's a
> strict, deep relationship between wikisource and Commons since Commons
> hosts images of books, in .djvu or .pdf files. Commons shares both images
> and contents fo information page of images, so that any wiki project can
> visualize a view-only "pseudo-page" accessing to a local page named as the
> file name into Commons.
>
> Working into self-made data semantization into it.wikisouce using a lot of
> creative tricks, we discovered that it's hard/almost impossible to read by
> AJAX calls the contents of pages of other projects since well-known same
> origin policy, but that File: local pages are considered as coming from
> "same origin" so that they can be read as any other local page, and this
> AJAX call asking for the content of
> i.e. File:Die_Judenfrage_in_Deutchland_1936.djvu:
>
> html=$.ajax({url:"
> http://wikisource.org/wiki/File:Die_Judenfrage_in_Deutchland_1936.djvu
> ",async:false}).responseText;
>
>
> gives back the html text of local File: view-only page, and this means
> that any data stored into information page into Commons is freely
> accessible by a javascript script and can easily used locally. In
> particular, data stored into information and/or (much better) Book and
> Creator templates can be retrieved and parsed
>
> Has this been described/used before? It seems a plain, simple way to share
> and disseminate good, consistent metadata into any project; and this runs
> from today, without any change on current wiki software.
>
> If you like, I'm sharing a practical test use of this trick into
> wikisource.org too, you can import User:Alex brollo/Library.js and a lot
> of smallo, original scripts will be loaded; click on "metadata" botton from
> any page connected to a File: page ( namespaces Index, Page) and you'll see
> a result coming from such an AJAX call.
>
> Alex brollo, from it.wikisource
>
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