On Jan 23, 2008 9:03 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(Earlier today I floated the idea of using a template to hold tags, and a tag search on the toolserver that would read and index them every day, Not that I could write the latter. A bit kludgy too.)
That isn't technically challenging at all, so long as we could make certain assumptions about how the tags are applied. (i.e. always applied directly, never via transclusion, so that one edit will never change the tags of 10000 images)
The recent changes rate on commons is very slow (compared to enwp). Simply having something follow RC and update every entry as it goes by would not be hard.
Integrating it well with the site is harder ... which is why some people requested some generic proxy functionality in the API for accessing persistent lookup daemons was lamented some months back.