On Thu Mar 23 11:41:49 UTC 2006 Rob Church wrote:
I ask this because I will read all articles in german wikipedia (at least at the first time I run my script) and that will bring a big performance problem.
Correct, it will. Please don't do that.
On March 23, 2006 6:55 PM Daniel wrote:
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
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Got it.
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.
a) Are we now allowed - from a toolserver account - to iterate over german and english articles (first all, then only the new ones) - or not?
b) Is there a technical solution (in PHP, WikiProxy?) to solve our problem trying to access all pages - even those residing in external storage?
c) In order to mirror those pages on toolserver can perhaps Kate or Brion come to rescue?
-- Stefan