Throwing in a few links in case outsiders are reading this. Tim Starling wrote: > We still want to do something about parser performance in the first > half of 2012, so we're going to bring forward our other performance > project, i.e. server-side scripting embedded in wikitext. That's a > project which is still at an early stage of planning. We will need to > define its scope, and to bite the bullet and make some tough design > choices (such as Lua versus JavaScript), if it's going to progress > from pipe dream to reality.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scripting > An extension specific to citations (like TemplateAdventures) would be > an alternative if scripting proves to be too hard. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateAdventures > * We shelved a project plan for better source file distribution (a > scap replacement), on the basis that it would be obsolete with HipHop. > And our system for having different versions of MediaWiki on different > wikis (HetDeploy) was implemented in a quick and dirty way, for the > same reason. These two projects may have to be revisited. * http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Heterogeneous_deployment * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_deployment * http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Sync_scripts MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
