As with Multilingual MediaWiki, Gerard and I may have funding for this
project, so I'd appreciate some feedback on the draft specs here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InstantCommons
The idea is to make Commons content easily available to any MediaWiki
installation. The main questions I'd appreciate comments on:
1) The best method to transparently download content in the background
that can easily be implemented in PHP without (too many) dependencies.
2) What other scalability issues beyond the ones discussed in the specs
there may be.
3) How thumbnail-generation of images where no client-side conversion
capabilities exist should be managed (notably SVG).
4) Whether Media: links should be handled in the way described or
differently.
Regards,
Erik