River Tarnell wrote:
it seems more useful to provide the text in
uncompressed form, instead of the
MediaWiki internal form that's almost impossible to work with. does that seem
reasonable?
The tools should get the text in uncompressed form. The interface to do
that is not so important.
Given the amount of text, I don't think storing text with some kind of
compression is something to discard right away.
A common data access interface would be interesting. Perhaps as a C
library to link, include as php extension... Then implement it for
different sources:
-Toolserver text replication
-WikiProxy
-Mysql mediawiki database
-Mediawiki API
-XML dump
Then applications just need to be designed for the text interface,
debugged with a local install, tested with a small dump, deployed on
toolserver...