Daniel Friesen wrote:
> ^_^ "hackish" isn't that bad in some sense. I'm currently experimenting
> with some farm code that works completely outside of MediaWiki rather
> than as a extension sitting inside of it. Using a sandbox it can get
> access to the MediaWiki install and extract info from it in a secure way
> which couldn't be extracted as easily from the api. The system works
> more like a MediaWiki virtual machine than a MediaWiki installation
> turned WikiFarm. The result is a farm free of mapping issues which can
> give MediaWiki hostees much more control over the installation then they
> could on a normal WikiFarm, including the ability for different wiki on
> the wiki farm to run completely different versions of MediaWiki and
> upgrade independently, and have control over their own list of installed
> extensions. ;) In fact this works using complete raw unmodified
> MediaWiki source code. I have a few "source" directories with MediaWiki
> source, they don't have any changes to them, and then end up being run
> in the VM thinking they are a complete installation modified with all
> the stuff they need to run.
> ^_^ Tricking MediaWiki into thinking it's a single installation sitting
> on it's own from the outside is definitely "hackish".
> In any case, Farm{Request,Api} is a nice and interesting idea.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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