On 29.01.2013 13:09, Ed Summers wrote:
Ok. From looking very quickly at pollForChanges I
guess the polling
doesn't use the API either? Does that mean that users of Wikidata who
want to keep up to date with changes need to be hosted in the
Wikimedia datacenter and granted read access to the Wikidata database?
Both, the now deprecated pollForChanges and the new dispatchChanges directly
poll the repo's database, and directly push to the client's database.
3rd party clients which want to embed data from Wikidata, but cannot access the
database directly, are not yet supported. We have designed the architecture in a
way that should allow us to support them easily enough, but the necessary
mechanisms are not yet implemented.
The plan is to eventually implement "remote" clients that fetch data via the
API, and get notifications pushed to them probably via PubsubHubbub. I would
very much like to see this, but our priority is to get Wikimedia sites feature
complete first.
-- daniel
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Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.