Extension talk:JSKitNavigator

Limiting JSKitNavigator results to specific Mediawiki categories
Is there a way to get JSKitNavigator to gather and show its results only within specified Mediawiki categories (not site-wide)? Kassoe 19:11, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * No; JS-Kit.com, the makers of JSKitNavigator, do not provide any API that would allow for such behavior to be implemented. Jean-Lou Dupont 22:15, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Jean-Lou. Thanks for fast response. There might be another way of solving my needs. In the JS-Kit admin guide in the chapter about Ratings API there are some options specified for external calls. I cannot quite figure that out as some of the parameters seem not to be explained ("Jx, Sum, Num") and I'm just a content guy on a steep learning curve. Do you think it would be possible to pull JS-Kit rating values for specific pages back into a table in Mediawiki, maybe using the Dynamic Page List extension, so that I in my wiki can show pages within a specific Mediawiki category, listed according to their rating? (I have asked in the JS-Kit forum as well and I'm waiting for an answer from them but they'll probably not know about the Mediawiki side of this). Kassoe 07:19, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Interesting! I never saw this admin-guide before; the answer to your question, after quickly sifting through the guide, is yes *but* it would require a custom extension. The API provides the data in either JSON or CSV and the said data must be formatted for use on a Mediawiki site. Jean-Lou Dupont 10:03, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Any chance that this would be a natural next step in the evolution of one of your extensions? As you can gather I can kind of find my way round in an architectural mode but programming an extension is out or reach for me personally ... As for the JS-Kit API their support earlier this month (August 2008) told me that a Comment API "is in development and will be available soon". I asked them because I wanted to know if data stored in JS-Kit could later on be accessed and ported elsewhere and the answer was as I gather a kind of yes. They are currently geared to sync up with Blogger and Wordpress and seem quite ambitious. I also had an email dialog with their CEO, Khris Loux. I had asked if there would be any conflicts between their licensing terms an the use of Creative Commons and he did not know of any (their policies are available at ) Kassoe 10:46, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * As next step, definitely maybe; I must say I am playing with some rather fun stuff at the moment and I have put aside (temporarily maybe ;-) Mediawiki development. If I get enough requests for what you are asking, I might change my mind though. Jean-Lou Dupont 16:03, 25 August 2008 (UTC)