>> On 09/20/2012 04:34 PM, dan entous wrote: >> dear all, >> >> as some of you may already know, the GLAMwiki Toolset Project, >> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Toolset_project, is a collaboration >> between Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia France and Europeana, >> with the goal of providing a set of tools to get materials from GLAM >> institutions onto Wikimedia Commons in a way that reuse can easily be >> tracked, and that Commons materials can easily be integrated back into the >> collection of the original GLAM or even other GLAMs. >> >> as part of our initial goal of creating a GLAM Upload System, we are looking >> to gather Wikimedia community input on the proposed architecture and >> technologies. if you have time and interest, please take a look and let us >> know your thoughts, >> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Toolset_project/Request_for_Comments/Technical_Architecture. >> >> >> with kind regards, >> dan > > On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: > Hi Dan, > > I have a few questions about the choice of the Zend Framework: > * Why exactly using the Zend Framework? would like to use an open-source mvc framework that is used widely, has strong community support, and several modules that may be used for current and future development rather than develop or use a custom or less widely used mvc framework
> * Do we really need such a dependency? the code will be dependent on some type of mvc framework - either custom, less or widely used > * Do we have this framework installed on the Wikimedia servers? not sure, but the gwtoolset will be used on a wikimedia labs instance, not on a wikimedia server. the gwtoolset will have a browser ui that allows glams to upload their metadata, match it to mediawiki templates and then upload the result to commons.wikimedia.org using the mediawiki api > * If "no", is that not a problem? > > Regards > Emmanuel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
