On 29.01.2013 13:09, Ed Summers wrote: > Ok. From looking very quickly at pollForChanges I guess the polling > doesn't use the API either? Does that mean that users of Wikidata who > want to keep up to date with changes need to be hosted in the > Wikimedia datacenter and granted read access to the Wikidata database?
Both, the now deprecated pollForChanges and the new dispatchChanges directly poll the repo's database, and directly push to the client's database. 3rd party clients which want to embed data from Wikidata, but cannot access the database directly, are not yet supported. We have designed the architecture in a way that should allow us to support them easily enough, but the necessary mechanisms are not yet implemented. The plan is to eventually implement "remote" clients that fetch data via the API, and get notifications pushed to them probably via PubsubHubbub. I would very much like to see this, but our priority is to get Wikimedia sites feature complete first. -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
