On 12/14/2010 05:40 PM, Platonides wrote:
> Ben Schwartz wrote:
>> I'd like to make a command-line tool or web-form.
...
>> Is there something like this already that I could use as a basis?
> 
> I don't think that's appropiate as a single web form. You would want to
> make it a Wizard with several steps, so you don't make him record a
> video just to then tell "We already have that page".

Oh, good idea... although an AJAXy webform could also serve that purpose.

> Neil may be interested on this. He recently made the UploadWizard.

I hadn't heard of this extension, but it looks interesting.  I presume
it's not yet active on the actual Commons?

>> *:  Ideally I'd like to be able to help users who don't yet have accounts
>> to make accounts, and also somehow automatically handle the
>> account-linking business between Commons, Wiktionary, etc.
> 
> That's not really a problem. All of these steps could be handled quite
> easily.
> 
> 
>> If this were a web form, how would I handle username+password securely?
> 
> This is best done in an extension.

Can a single extension span Commons and Wiktionary?  Would I have to
convince both of them to install my extension before I can use it?  I had
planned to prototype this on a third-party server, precisely to avoid
interfering with the real infrastructure.  I'm trying to minimize the
number of required clicks, so I'd hate to push people through a multi-step
upload wizard on one site, and then a separate definition-page-creation
wizard on another site.

Thanks,
Ben


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