If we're going to create a special tool, there's no point in stopping so short that we still have to rely on somebody to run client-side bots to make it work properly.
I think that it is a request to start looking into ways to handle interwiki links from the inside, rather than still relying on bots to update the pages.
The interlanguage extension is a nice first step towards the inclusion in core of all the work that we are currently doing with interwiki bots. But why would we rely on, again, client-side bots to update anything? The bot work seems to be smaller with this system, agreed. But perhaps these new type of bots updates could simply be transformed into Jobs and put in the Job queue.
At least the idea is to try to find a workflow that could be included in the server as much as possible instead of saying that client-side bots will handle the update tasks.
2009/3/17 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu:
Дана Saturday 14 March 2009 23:20:01 Amir E. Aharoni написа:
2009/3/15 Andrew Garrett andrew@werdn.us:
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@gmail.com
wrote:
Sorry about bugging the list about it, but can anyone please explain the reason for not enabling the Interlanguage extension?
See bug 15607 - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607
In general, extensions with this status haven't been implemented because they haven't been reviewed by a highly experienced developer.
Brion wrote a few comments there, but i didn't understand what exactly is the problem.
Seconded. Brion's comments are:
I don't quite understand what this extension is meant to accomplish, or how the workflow is envisioned. What are the user interface and performance considerations?
The lack of automatic updates seems less than ideal, as does the multiple fetching of link data over the HTTP API on every page render. Management UI by manual editing of offsite pages looks pretty ugly; what could be done to improve this?
I don't fully understand them.
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