On 04/03/2011 07:56 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
In particular, I think there's some low-hanging fruit in the Gadgets system. Right now it's honestly pretty awkward to create a Gadget in the first place, and sharing code modules between wikis requires a lot of cut-and-pasting (which leads to divergent code bases, which makes maintenance nigh-impossible in the face of MediaWiki framework changes).
What about interwiki transclusion? That sounds like it could generally solve the more general problem "for a wiki to work, you'll first need to create a bunch of pages", although it might need some adaption (e.g.: on some specified pages, such as MediaWiki's gadget pages, non-existing pages automatically transclude from meta or some other shared repository) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Peter17/Reasonably_efficient_interwiki_tr...
-- Tobias