Hi Brian, I've been working on an api module/extension to extract metadata from > commons image description pages, and display it in the API.
Awesome! > The downside to this is in order to effectively get metadata out of > commons given the current practises, one essentially has to screen > scrape and do slightly ugly things > This [1] looks quite acrobatic indeed. Can’t we make better use of the machine-readable markings provided by templates? <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Machine-readable_data> [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80403/4/CommonsMetadata_body.php -- Jean-Frédéric _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
