On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> wrote: > Apart from making the data generally available, using a web API means > that the execution can be parallelized / distributed and potentially > cached. It also tends to lead to narrow interfaces with explicit > handling of state.
It would also mean that MediaWiki would be making uncontrolled API calls *during the page parse*. That would probably not work out too well; I know on my local test wiki it's a pain just having to wait for the ForeignAPIRepo calls for images. -- Brad Jorsch Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
