On 31 August 2013 03:10, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been working on an api module/extension to extract metadata from > commons image description pages, and display it in the API. I know > this is an area that various people have thought about from time to > time, so I thought it would be of interest to this list. >
This looks rather fun. For VisualEditor, we'd quite like to be able to pull in the description of a media file in the page's language when it's inserted into the page, to use as the default caption for images. I was assuming we'd have to wait for the port of this data to Wikidata, but this would be hugely helpful ahead of that. :-) However, how much more work would it be to insert it directly into Wikidata right now? I worry about doing the work twice if Wikidata could take it now - presumably the hard work is the reliable screen-scraping, and building the tool-chain to extract from this just to port it over to Wikidata in a few months' time would be a pity. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
