| Joe added a comment. |
In T212189#4839848, @WMDE-leszek wrote:
The intention of introducing the service is not to have a service that call Mediawiki. As discussed above, it is needed for the service to ask for some data, and this data shall be provided by some API. Currently, the only API that can provide data about Wikidata items etc is indeed wrapped in MediaWiki. Should there be another, more light-weight API providing access to the same data, the service would most likely be using it.
Apart from the fact that the MediaWiki api is very performant, I don't think that "the data shall be provided by some API". The data might as well be provided by the caller. I can assure you it's absolutely impossible to get better performance than being fed the data by your caller, vs having to retreive it with several RPC calls, no matter how lightweight (which I guess means "performant") the API you call might be.
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