Hi Dirk, Hi Stefan
FlaBot wrote:
is WikiProxy.php?wiki=de&title=Haushttp://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Edaniel/foo/WikiProxy.php?wiki=de&title=Haus the right style to get a (perhaps) cache last-version ?
Yes. If yo do not request a specific revision, you will get the latest (according to the toolserver db). If the toolserver is lagged and you request the latest version, you may not see the very newest update, but what you get will be consistent with the toolserver db.
Stefan wrote:
Wait a moment: We invested quite some effort in order to extract useful information (georeferenced articles) out of dewiki in order to serve other services. We have been adviced and are convinced until now that the toolserver is the best platform to do this.
It is. But there are technical difficulties with providing full text in real time. Currently, the only *efficient* way to look at a lit of articles is to use a dump.
Then we got problems with a large amount of unreadable (compressed) articles...
Compression is not a big problem, external storage is. Most of the new versions are not available on the toolserver at all.
And now you close down access even for dewiki toolserver users because of non-technical reasons? Please tell me, that I'm wrong!
You are wrong.
The idea is to not provide wiki *content* to the *public* from the toolserver (which WikiProxy currently does). The toolserver is run by the German e.V., and the concern is that they might become liable for the content if its served from the toolserver. I don't really believe that this could be a problem (there's a special clause for caches and proxies in German law), but they run the thing, and I can comply to their wishes without much pain.
When I "lock down" my WikiProxy thing, nothing will change for any script running on the toolserver, whether it uses WikiProxy or not; Only if you want to use WikiProxy from the outside, you would need to get a token.
-- Daniel