On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Brianna Laugher<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/7/23 Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]>: >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Ryan Lane<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Check out how the Flickr API works. Users can give web and desktop >>> apps privileges (read/write/delete). >>> >>> It isn't really that bizarre of a concept. >> >> Read/write/delete access to what? The only cases where read access >> would be relevant would be what, watchlist and preferences, pretty >> much? I don't think we'd want this for editing, or admin-only stuff >> like viewing deleted pages. > > Eh? I do. Else why bother even having a write API? Why bother even > having the login aspect to the API? > > I can imagine someone building an alternative edit interface for a > subset of Wikipedia content, say a WikiProject. Then the interface can > strip away all the general crud and just provide information relevant > to that topic area.
And moving slightly away from "editing", Flickr could have an "upload to Wikimedia Commons" application which integrates nicely into their UI, and retaining a link in their system to indicate the name of the file over on Commons. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
