MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up 2009/Notes/API
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Dumps, API, Feed
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[edit] Dumps
- Backend vs. Fronted features
- Page history is really hard to track and is unclear
- Incremental dumps
(Session on Dumps, connect to backend people)
[edit] Feeds
- Get noted about events (edits etc)
- XMPP
- PUBSAP
- Interesting for bots etc.
- Discussing push vs. pull, reliability
Session on inplementing interface/XMPP server
[edit] API
[edit] The Bot API
- including UIDs, user names
- Discussing requirements
[edit] Research API
- Stable API to connect to the data
- Not too Mediawiki specific
[edit] Upload API
- Clean API (error handling etc)
- "Files on a share" backend
[edit] Structured data
[edit] Links API
- Connecting different data sources
- Unique identifiers
- Forwarding data back and forth
[edit] Structured Data Api
- Metadata in infoboxes
- Small solution as big Semantic Mediawiki may never work.
Mediawiki does not have a real parser (problem for data extraction)
