Throwing in a few links in case outsiders are reading this.
Tim Starling wrote:
We still want to do something about parser performance in the first half of 2012, so we're going to bring forward our other performance project, i.e. server-side scripting embedded in wikitext. That's a project which is still at an early stage of planning. We will need to define its scope, and to bite the bullet and make some tough design choices (such as Lua versus JavaScript), if it's going to progress from pipe dream to reality.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scripting
An extension specific to citations (like TemplateAdventures) would be an alternative if scripting proves to be too hard.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateAdventures
- We shelved a project plan for better source file distribution (a
scap replacement), on the basis that it would be obsolete with HipHop. And our system for having different versions of MediaWiki on different wikis (HetDeploy) was implemented in a quick and dirty way, for the same reason. These two projects may have to be revisited.
* http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Heterogeneous_deployment * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_deployment * http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Sync_scripts
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