agarrett at wikimedia
Sep 18, 2009, 2:20 PM
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On 18/09/2009, at 10:00 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
> As you may know we use ugly uselang hacks on Commons to create our own
> distinct upload forms. I want this functionality in MediaWiki.
We all do, I think it'll be thrown in as part of the Ford Foundation
work.
> HTMLForm provides a great way to abstractify form construction by
> providing a descriptor that can be transformed into an HTML
> presentation. What I want is to have allow Commons admins to create
> custom uploads forms by providing a descriptor suitable for HTMLForm,
> which is then translated to HTML and accessable via
> Special:Upload/formname.
Actually, as I understand it, we're hoping that we can throw together
a generic workflow management system for MediaWiki that could be used
to re-implement deletion, promotion, upload, blocking, and other
processes.
In my opinion, HTMLForm forms could be the framework we're looking for
for adding forms to this system, good thinking.
> The question is how to allow admins to edit this descriptor. In PHP
> this is simply an array. We could allow input as JSON or XML in a
> MediaWiki: namespace message, which is then translated to an array and
> then fed to HTMLForm. Or it could be only GUI editable via a Special
> page and the forms can be stored elsewhere in the database.
The only sane idea is a proper special page. Adding configuration
through JSON or XML, especially in the MediaWiki namespace, is lazy at
best.
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Andrew Garrett
agarrett [at] wikimedia
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