Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Wikitech contributors/"Nodes" aggregation might not require an extension

The current listed plan is to create a new MediaWiki extension that will enable all information relating to a specific "Node" (interested users, relevant bug reports, related events and news, etc.) to be aggregated and displayed on the page for that node. This might not actually require an extension at all - it might all be doable using a combination of Semantic MediaWiki and the External Data extension. External Data lets you get structured data from an API - so the key is just to make sure that there are APIs to get all the relevant information out of Bugzilla, Gerrit, the Wikimedia blog, etc. If there aren't APIs right now to handle all of that, that might require some programming - but I think that would be an easier and more flexible solution than creating a whole extension just for this purpose. More flexible in the sense that all formatting of values would be done within wiki pages - so modifying the look of any of it, or, say, the number of rows displayed for each data type, could be done within the wiki, as opposed to requiring changes to the PHP code.