River Tarnell wrote: > it seems more useful to provide the text in uncompressed form, instead of the > MediaWiki internal form that's almost impossible to work with. does that seem > reasonable?
The tools should get the text in uncompressed form. The interface to do that is not so important. Given the amount of text, I don't think storing text with some kind of compression is something to discard right away. A common data access interface would be interesting. Perhaps as a C library to link, include as php extension... Then implement it for different sources: -Toolserver text replication -WikiProxy -Mysql mediawiki database -Mediawiki API -XML dump Then applications just need to be designed for the text interface, debugged with a local install, tested with a small dump, deployed on toolserver... _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
