Hello.
Nice work, Daniel.
The question may be weird, but it's something we have been thinking here for a while.
Could we use recent changes to recreate the same info one gets from full XML dumps? Could
it be the starting point for some alternative to the current dump process?
Thanks,
F.
--- El jue, 19/8/10, Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de> escribió:
De: Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de>
Asunto: [Wiki-research-l] Demo of RC-Events over XMPP
Para: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities"
<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Fecha: jueves, 19 de agosto, 2010 21:09
(I sent this to a couple of lists
already, but i though it might also be
interresting for the research community)
Hi all! For a long time I wanted a decent push interface
for
RecentChanges-Events, so it becomes easy to follow changes
on a wiki. Parsing
messages on IRC is unreliable, and polling the API sucks
(and is also
unreliable, see Bug 24782).
So, I have written XMLRC <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XMLRC> and
set
up a prototype on the Toolserver - have a look at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Recentchanges_via_XMPP>
for details. Basically,
you point any Jabber client to the chat room
<enwiki(a)conference.jabber.toolserver.org>
to see the change events, like on IRC.
However, if you use a client aware of the extra data
attached to the messages,
like <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XMLRC/rcclient.py>,
you will get
all the information you can get from the API (in fact, you
can get the exact
same XML tag).
Try it out and let me know what you think!
-- daniel
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