Salvete,

I wanted to document a design-conversation Tim Starling and I had the other day over IRC; WikiTeX for MediaWiki should have the following necessary (but not necessarily sufficient) properties:

Segregation: WikiTeX should be deployable on a segregated (virtual) machine which will communicate with MediaWiki by RPC (via e.g. SOAP).

Throttling: Processor-time per request will have Draconian absolute limits; and per-IP-throttling may also protect against abuse.

Tim mentioned that we might start with a subset of WikiTeX services; say: graph, music, amsmath.