Content deleted Content added
→JSON for the indices: new section |
→New fields: new section |
||
Line 148:
{{ping|Mr. Stradivarius}} Per [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.loadJsonData this], it's now possible to have Lua modules load JSON rather than Lua tables. I think this would be a lot better to work with (i.e. all utilities wouldn't have to constantly serialize and deserialize Lua tables using the idiosyncratic whitespace/indentation/etc format). Additionally, a page with the JSON content model would be constrained and sanitized by MediaWiki, rather than a Lua table which can just have wrong stuff in it etc. I would like to write some more utilities to work with these indices but the Lua tables are kind of an awkward sticking point. What would the procedure be for converting them? I would be able to write patches for the Signpost tagger and Wegweiser (and may be able to help with the Lua module itself). <b style="font-family: monospace; color:#E35BD8">[[User:JPxG|<b style="color:#029D74">jp</b>]]×[[Special:Contributions/JPxG|<b style="color: #029D74">g</b>]][[User talk:JPxG|🗯️]]</b> 23:52, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
== New fields ==
Lately it has occurred to me that the way old Signpost archives get generated is very ass-backwards. We ''have'' a giant database of every article, its title, its author, et cetera... we're just not using it. It does get used ''sometimes'', like in [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Templates/Single_talk]]. But for the archive issues, we have hundreds of individual pages, like [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2022-11-28]], that redundantly store article titles, subheadings, et cetera. The modifications I'm working on now (which I've incorporated into the snippet template and the publishing script) allow articles to be associated with custom images, so the archives will have that too, but then this creates a problem: modifying an image for an article requires me to edit the article, then update [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost]], then update [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-12-04]], and such.
Anyway: I'd like to, as much as possible, use the module for stuff instead of static wikitext pages. However, this will again require some more fields to be added. Right now, my thinking is:
* <code>subhed</code> (subheading, or blurb, or whatever) -- string, nowadays this is a sentence or so but in some old issues it's GIGANTIC (paragraph or more). Has various random crap in it (templates, quotation marks, etc).
* <code>piccy</code> -- string, image file for the article. These, ideally, would be a 1:1 aspect ratio, but might sometimes not be, which brings me to:
* <code>piccy-meta</code> -- coordinates for CSS crop of the image. I am not 100% on this. It might just be four CSS crop coordinates. But I am also contemplating other attributes, like filters (what if we want to desaturate an image, etc).
Like above, I am fine to incorporate these into the publishing script, Wegweiser, and the tagging script, but may need some assistance with the Lua part (and I don't know if this should be done before or after the lua table-json thing). {{ping|Mr. Stradivarius}} what do you think? <b style="font-family: monospace; color:#E35BD8">[[User:JPxG|<b style="color:#029D74">jp</b>]]×[[Special:Contributions/JPxG|<b style="color: #029D74">g</b>]][[User talk:JPxG|🗯️]]</b> 00:04, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
| |||