On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also note that you wouldn't technically be parsing, just preprocessing > on the home wiki, which is certain to be less expensive (how much less > I don't know)
This is a good point. > and that you'd be doing this on some wiki anyway, so > only the overhead involved in HTTP, the API and initializing the > parser is relevant; the actual cost of the operation is not, because > you're doing it someplace either way (of course this only applies > intra-WMF, not to external clients). External clients are what I'm worried about. It's a nonissue for intra-Wikimedia use, but if external clients start using a lot of CPU by using Wikimedia servers for parsing, I expect them to get shut down, and no one wants that. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Marco Schuster <ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org> wrote: > Why not mix it? Take other templates etc. from the source wiki and set magic > stuff like time / contentlang to target wiki values. That's what I suggested, basically. Use templates from the foreign wiki, but do the actual parsing locally, so you get local values for magic words and so on. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
