I also have a home-grown framework: https://github.com/Krinkle/toollabs-base
Originally created for my Toolserver tools. Recently rewritten for Tool Labs. A few example tools: * https://tools.wmflabs.org/orphantalk/ * https://tools.wmflabs.org/usage/?action=usage&group=Krinkle * https://tools.wmflabs.org/intuition/ * https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiinfo/ * https://tools.wmflabs.org/snapshots/ Some Tool Labs oriented features: * Interface for LabsDB. * Interface for Wikimedia wikis. * Integration with Intuition for localisation. * Integration with tool-labs Redis for caching. Some back-end features: * Caching layers (Redis, FileSystem, Memory). * LocalSettings-driven (ala MediaWiki). * Incorporates MediaWiki's Html.php, Sanitizer.php, GitInfo.php. * HttpRequest interface. Front-end features: * Bootstrap * jQuery Having said that, it's a pile of shitty hacks. I'd be happy to collaborate on something else. — Krinkle On 8 Dec 2014, at 15:30, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It's been some time since we launched tool labs and there is > incredible number of tools now. They all however have 2 major > problems. Every tool has own, different layout / css style (which may > be confusing the users of these tools) and every developer of these > tools probably have to reinvent a wheel at some point as they all have > to do some common tool setup - eg. they have to create some basic php > skeleton that would access wikimedia resources, from databases, > memcache, reddis to API's and so on. > > What about creating some common uniform framework in php that, just as > pywikipediabot that is used to create bots, would be used to create > web-based tools. So that maintainer of a tool would just fork or clone > this framework and wouldn't have to spend their time creating > functions that would generate html pages with wikimedia uniform style > (similar to how vector looks, for example, or just any uniform style, > so that tools would look similar), access wikimedia databases, OAuth, > ldap, API... > > I believe it would not just make creation of new tools incredibly > simple, but it would also make all tools have consistent look and > feel, and thus improve the end user experience. What you think? Is > there someone who would like to work on that? > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > lab...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
