On 15/12/11 00:35, Brion Vibber wrote:
An alternative on this is to use a gadget or site JS bit to fetch the status live via Bugzilla's JSON-RPC interface -- that's easiest if all the pages are centralized in one wiki of course, so may not be ideal for pages on the other wikis.
-- brion
Or just create an extension which shows the status of a given bug (connecting to kaulen with read-only credentials). No dummy bot edits and no need of extra connections. And fits well in our know-how. Although perhaps those edits are a *feature*? (so that the change shows in the watchlist). In that case, better start reseaching bugzilla hooks and how to call from the hook the mediawiki perl framework.