On 18/02/13 23:24, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > How useful would it be for Lua to access to the query/content/parser API be? > > I am suspecting there could be a lot of creative usages of this, including > getting data from the wikidata (which won't have to do anything special to > enable this)
If you provided full access to ApiQuery*, resource limiting would be fairly difficult, since it provides lots of ways to do unlimited table scanning regardless of result set size. As for the Wikidata application -- the interface would be awkward compared to something made specifically for interfacing Wikidata with Lua. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
