Re: [Wikitech-l] License information

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel@...> wrote:
> Brianna Laugher schrieb:
>>
>> I agree that it makes a lot of sense. But because it would be a big
>> change, I fear that unless the lead developers show great enthusiasm
>> for the idea, it will take a very long time to be accepted and
>> completed. Whereas building an "add-on" tool can be faster to get to
>> point of functionality.
>
> Guys, before re-inventing several wheels, please look at what we already have.
>
> Please have a look at
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tag_categories>, which defines a way
> to make license tags machine readable. Using that scheme, it would be easy to
> build a script on the toolserver that delivers metadata in a machine readable
> form. No need for screen scraping.

Yes there is. Not for the license name (which I get using categories
in my experimental API), but for things like name of author etc. These
are only available as either HTML tag IDs (which I use) or raw
wikitext.

Magnus