On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 11:57:36AM +0200, dan entous wrote:
> the mappings will serve a specific purpose. they will map potentially
> unique XML metadata formats and standard XML metadata formats to
> mediawiki template parameters. would the namespace Metadata_mappings,
> i prefer plural because there will be many mappings, be too generic or
> would that suffice for everyone?

There are many articles. We use Article:. There are many users. We use
User:. It makes little sense to depart from established practice.

> i still believe that the use of the user name is important. two or
> more people could come up with their own version of how to map
> Rijksmuseum metadata with mediawiki template parameters, so if we
> continue with this namespacing concept the potential title would be :
> Metadata_mappings:Dan-nl/Rijksmusem.

But the Rijksmusem isn't a subresource of you. If anything I would
suggest having a "base" and enabling subpages so users could add their
own mappings, hopefully with more informative titles than just their
usernames, like Metadata_mapping:Rijksmusem/No_publication_date or
something. (admittedly I made something up but you get the idea)

> one thing i forgot to mention was the addition of an extension to the
> title to help identify the format of the content of the title. we were
> planning to use .json, so the end title would be :
> Metadata_mappings:Dan-nl/Rijksmusem.json. would that make sense to
> everyone?

There's no need for this. Everything in this namespace would be JSON,
so putting that information in the title twice would be silly.

> i took a look at the current implementation of TemplateData on commons
> and have not seen it used for the templates we're currently looking
> at. for now i will look into coding the use of the TemplateData if
> present and if not, fallback to our current db look-up implementation.
> 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Template:Artwork
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Template:Book
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Template:Musical%20work
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Template:Photograph
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Template:Specimen

It wouldn't be hard to add to these templates, and I've already done
it for the Information template, so this would be a good idea to do
now-or-soon. Interface with Nazmul, who is Rasel160, who's been working
on auto-generating forms for Commons templates in UploadWizard, and
see if you can't work together on this :)

Ta,

-- 
Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
[email protected]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist

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