> Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:40:00 -0700 > From: Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Focus on sister projects > To: Conrad Irwin <[email protected]> > Cc: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > [...] > > As long as we're on the subject of wiktionary, I notice that there's a > lot of custom Javascript there for handling specialized editing tasks > like editing glosses, managing translations, etc. It seems like some of > this functionality could be improved further and developed into > full-fledged extensions (making it easy for other wiktionaries to use as > well). Would you have any interest in working up a couple Wiktionary > project proposals for the upcoming Hackathon in Berlin? > > Ryan Kaldari
This isn't just true of wiktionary. Lots of sister projects have specialized work flow tools in js. Wikinews has review related tools in js and a hack that adds a second "talk" namespace, Wikisource has the proofread page extension, but still much of there workflow is written in js, I'm sure many other projects have specialized stuff that should be in php extensions. The issue is at the end of the day it is _significantly_ easier to write a js hack, then to manage to get a php extension written, reviewed and deployed. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
