Luigi, Are you talking about a client-only app (rich client or mobile or a web mashup), or your own server that will do the caching/manipulation of the content?
We don't really have a hard limit on the API usage (unless someone starts copying the entire wikipedia instead of using a dump file), especially if its a client-only approach with many clients accessing the data. Assuming you are doing a client-only, your best bet is to probably use action=parse to get the HTML of the wiki text (it uses server-side cached IIRC). I am not sure about images - you can get image information through the api, but i don't recall if we have any server-side scaling exposed through it -- although it must be exposed somehow. --Yuri On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Luigi Assom <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I hope to have found the right channel for answering our questions on > using properly Wikipedia contents. > > Me and my team are crafting a mobile and web application to browse > wikipedia content in a different fashion. > > We are also taking care for caching content on our servers in order to > avoid to "stress" wikipedia servers as much as possible. > > Still, we have to make an important decision. > We want to do the following: > 1. to "style" wikipedia pages so that we can apply a different look&feel. > 2. to obtain images from wikipedia, and resize them to fit our layout > > About 1., I'd like to know which is the best practice of doing it. > Should we interace with the API of wiki? > or include css within the mobile clients and override the page content? > Is there any day limit in querying the API? > Or any benchmark to refer to? > > About 2., The only possible way is probably using the API. > Again, Is there any day limit in querying the API? > Is there any way to query in one time a stack of images, so that to reduce > the number of requests to wiki servers? > > Finally, is there any case study to follow as benchmark? > > Thank you so much for helping us! > Best, > > Luigi > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >
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