On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/10/23 Robert Rohde <[email protected]>: >> Given the fairly obvious utility for data mining, it might make sense >> for someone to extend the Mediawiki API to generate a list of template >> calls and the parameters sent in each case. >> > We had a discussion about this Tuesday in the tech staff meeting, and > decided that we want to put this data mining possibility in core at > some point (using a table like pagelinks to store these key/value > pairs and modifying the parser). As you may understand this is not a > very high priority project, and I don't know if any of the paid > developers are gonna do it any time soon.
Out of curiousity, did you discuss internal uses for this? The biggest class of users would probably be external data miners, but I suspect there might be some uses for such data within Mediawiki as well, so I'm curious if you had some application(s) in mind. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
