On 03/05/2013 08:20 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/glam/2013-March/000361.html & > http://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries/ > : "how do we get people from Wikipedia articles to the related offerings > of our local libraries?" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Library_resources_box "create a > sidebar box with links to resources about (or by) the topic of a > Wikipedia article in a reader’s library, or in another library a reader > might want to consult." > > And more! > > "As with most things related to Wikipedia, this service is experimental, > and subject to change (and, hopefully, improvement) over time. I’d love > to hear thoughts and suggestions from users and maintainers of Wikipedia > and libraries." > > John, since you said you're new to template-building, you might enjoy > learning about what the new Lua templating system gives you: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual >
John asked for his response to be forwarded: > Thanks! The Lua capabilities look interesting. I could see them > potentially making it possible to eventually implement some or all > of the "smarts" of the service in Wikipedia itself. (Right > now, my templates simply package up some arguments to a CGI-script > forwarder I run on my end, which does the figuring out of what > library to query, how to formulate a query, and what library headings > or other query terms to use, for a given Wikipedia source.) > > I hope to publish data and source for my service once things > quiet down a little bit here (right now, I'm keeping pretty busy > with library requests and queries). Though the source isn't > something that can simply be installed and run as-is (it's got some > hooks into Online Books code, and is implemented in Perl), it > might be useful for people looking to port it or do similar applications. I encourage his source publication sooner rather than later, of course. :) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
