church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
However, you'd have to worry that each distant wiki uses only a fair amount of the home wiki server's resources. E.g. set a limit of inclusions (that limit would have to be on the home-wiki-server-side) and disallow infinite loops (they're always fun).
Infinite loops could only happen if both wikis can fetch from the other one. A simple solution would be to pass with the query who requested it originally. If the home wiki calls a different wiki, it would blame the one who asked for it (or maybe building a wiki + template path).
What do you propose for linking? If a template on the home wiki links to [[Foobar]], should that be an interwiki link to [[homewiki:Foobar]], or a local link in the distant wiki? In any case, there should be a way of differentiating home-wiki and distant-wiki references (links, inclusions).
The link itself could be generated partly with local data and partly with remote data, eg. a remote template containing "[[[Flag of {{{city}}}]]" called with a city parameter.