On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Q <[email protected]> wrote: > I would have to suggest to not go the shared database route unless the > code can be fixed so that shared databases actually work with all of the > DB backends.
I don't see why it shouldn't be easy to get it working with all DB backends. But in any case, for Wikimedia use, a shared database backend is pretty much a must. Having the application servers make HTTP requests to each other to retrieve templates rather than accessing the database directly is just silly, and is going to perform badly. Ideally the code should generalize to work with external wikis too, so that third parties can benefit from our templates as they do from our images. Maybe someday, a copy-pasted Wikipedia article will actually work . . . I can dream. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
