On 09/06/12 06:18, Klein,Max wrote:
I was just wondering if there have been any efforts from Code4Lib into MediaWiki development? I know that there have been some Wikipedia templates and bots designed to interface with library services. Yet what about cold hard MediaWiki extensions? Has there been any discussion on this, any ideas raised?
Do you have any specific examples of things that can't be done with templates (good for holding information), bots (good for adding, curating and maintaining information) or CSS (good for displaying information) that can be done using a MediaWiki extension?
The road to get a MediaWiki extension stable enough, tested enough, trusted enough and needed enough for it to get rolled out on Wikipedia is long and hard and I wouldn't recommend it unless you have the most cast-iron of use-cases.
If the ISBN support were proposed today, I strongly suspect that it won't make it in today. Of course it's now grandfathered in and removing support seems very, very, unlikely.
cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
