On 02/05/2013 10:53 AM, Brad Jorsch wrote: > 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*.
To me it is not clear why a Wikidata web API would be less controlled than a Wikidata Lua API with direct access to the DB. > 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. Slow operations will be slow, no matter how you call them. With a web API you at least get to parallelize and distribute the execution, so that you don't have to wait for a sequence of slow operations. Gabriel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
