Aryeh Gregor wrote: > 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.
He can internally call the api from the other wiki via FauxRequest. > 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. I'm afraid that it will produce the opposite. A third party downloads a xml dump for offline use but it doesn't work because it needs a dozen templates from meta (in the worst case, templates from a dozen other wikis). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
