Commons talk:VIAF inter project linking/Tools
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[edit]- 93.215.179.236 16:09, 28 August 2011 (UTC) : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 : OK
- http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=viaf+95216565 multiscript 16:12, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
- http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=viaf+71391324 Mahatma Gandhi About 630 results (0,42 seconds) 16:21, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
- 21:34, 28 August 2011 (UTC): "%2B notation: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2Bviaf+%2B53960499 (se also: category:Gilad Shalit) ·לערי ריינהארט·T·m:Th·T·email me· 21:34, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
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[edit]The greasemonkey script has the line:
// @include *
This is very dangerous from a security point of view. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:47, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- Can be dangerous in general, not when using this specific script. I already mentioned this and made links to the source. Before downloading users should inspect the integrity of the code. --Wikinaut (talk) 07:23, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- I added further text to the download info/warning. "The script runs on every web page, which potentially is a risk with Greasemonkey scripts. Please use the script with care. You can consider to disable it after use." --Wikinaut (talk) 07:26, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Going the wrong way?
[edit]As I understand it, this script looks for the VIAF identifier already in the page and find makes links based on that identifier. That's a job it seems to do pretty well. As I understand it, what we actually need, is a script that takes personal names and looks them up on VIAF sites to try and find VIAF identifiers for them and represents that to the user for the user to check. That way we can get more VIAF identifiers into the wiki. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:35, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- You are correct in your observation — please consider the current script as a starting point. Such a script requires careful development, and also collaboration with the Toolserver staff, which need to write further scripts for the API calls (in this case, fetching names for numbers). Everyone is invited to further improve the script, that's one of the reasons why the script is in the MediaWiki subversion (SVN) repository. --Wikinaut (talk) 07:29, 1 October 2011 (UTC)