On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Peter17 <peter...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mmmh.... sorry, I'm not really sure I understand... My suggestion is > to use a shared database that would store the remote calls, not the > content of the pages... In my mind, fetching the distant pages would > be done through the API, not by accessing directly the distant > database. The external wikis will soon be able to access our images > very easily with wgUseInstantCommons but it is still not an access to > the database... >
That's not scalable on Wikimedia sites. Making external HTTP requests to other wiki's APIs just isn't fast enough; you must use the database for remote wiki information in the WMF. I suggest taking a deeper look at how the FileRepo does things. The abstract class FileRepo handles the high-level stuff while LocalFile, ForeignDBRepo and ForeignAPIRepo handle the specific implementations for things like getting thumbnails or metadata. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
