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huggle - issue #151
What Huggle needs to do and what MediaWiki is designed for are not the same
Posted on Jan 15, 2009 by
Happy Dog
Wikimedia high-traffic, mostly read-only websites => MediaWiki wiki engine designed for same => MediaWiki database schema designed for same => MediaWiki API limited to selection of efficient queries => Huggle limited to API queries => Huggle features limited by available information => Some things that would be useful are not possible
Possible solutions:
- Rewrite MediaWiki: I don't have the time, knowledge or resources
- Ask for new API additions: They get wontfix'd
- Get the information anyway by flooding the API with requests: Users complain of slowness, devs track me down and murder me in my sleep
- Fake the information from incomplete data: Works some of the time in some places, but not all the time or everywhere.
- Do without the information: Users continue to do stupid things, blame software, insist on feature anyway
Comment #1
Posted on Feb 21, 2009 by Happy Dognot done =[
Status: Invalid
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Type-Sadfactoflife