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This particular rule piqued my interest:
[[meta:Toolserver/Rules]] wrote:
The installation of large web applications (phpmyadmin, mediawiki,
...) is not allowed.
In this context, what does "installation" and "large" mean? It probably would be okay to be storing the codebase of MediaWiki in order to piggyback off of parsing functions or use Revision::getRevisionText (as noted in [[meta:Toolserver/For users]])... so what's the catch?
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Edward Z. Yang: EY> [[meta:Toolserver/Rules]] wrote: EY> > The installation of large web applications (phpmyadmin, mediawiki, EY> ...) is not allowed.
EZ> In this context, what does "installation"
letting external users use it (e.g. in public_html).
EZ> and "large"
anything you can't verify the security of by browsing the source for five minutes :-)
EZ> mean? It probably EZ> would be okay to be storing the codebase of MediaWiki in order to EZ> piggyback off of parsing functions or use Revision::getRevisionText
yes.
EZ> (as EZ> noted in [[meta:Toolserver/For users]])... so what's the catch?
you can't set up http://tools.wikimedia.de/~edwardzyang/my-wiki/
k.
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kate wrote:
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Ah, that cleared it up. Thanks!
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