hi!
Both to increase submission volume/quality and to benefit Mediawiki-using sites, are there any plans to develop an XMLRPC style external editing protocol, such that editors like MarsEdit and ecto can interface with Mediawiki?
yes, quite a lot of plans.. see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Client http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine-friendly_wiki_interface http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiText_Transfer_Protocol
Ideally they would be able to: Search for articles Edit the text of articles start new ones get internally generated lists (such as new articles, recently edited articles) revert pages, get access to previous versions' texts
Any thoughts on whether this would be worthwhile? Any other features which might be useful?
yes: resolve links between different mediawiki. instances.
daniel