On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:42 PM, church.of.emacs.ml
<church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/24/2010 04:44 PM, Peter17 wrote:
>> It is now open for comments, so, could you please read it and let me
>> know about your remarks and suggestions, on this list and/or on the
>> talk page?
>
> first of all, I let me tell you that I'm really excited about this
> project. It may very well revolutionize the way we organize templates on
> Wikimedia and also other wiki farms.
>
> Some notes:
> 1. You propose a shared database. If I interpret this correctly, it only
> works inside a wiki set on the same server farm and doesn't include
> external wikis. For example, English Wikipedia could transclude
> templates from Meta Wiki, but not from Wikia. In contrast,
> $wgForeignFileRepos works for external Wikis (which is much better).
>

If it's done right, you should be able to put various backends
on it just like the FileRepo code. Bug 20646 is a good start
to something like this I think. Being able to store API urls or
database connection info inside a iw_meta field would be
awesome for this (and has lots of other applications as well).

-Chad

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