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


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