MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up 2009/Notes/API

Dumps, API, Feed

Dumps

• Backend vs. Fronted features
• Page history is really hard to track and is unclear
• Incremental dumps

(Session on Dumps, connect to backend people)

Feeds

• Get noted about events (edits etc)
• XMPP
• PUBSAP
• Interesting for bots etc.
• Discussing push vs. pull, reliability

Session on inplementing interface/XMPP server

API

The Bot API

• including UIDs, user names
• Discussing requirements

Research API

• Stable API to connect to the data
• Not too Mediawiki specific

Upload API

• Clean API (error handling etc)
• "Files on a share" backend

Structured data

Links API

• Connecting different data sources
• Unique identifiers
• Forwarding data back and forth

Structured Data Api

• Metadata in infoboxes
• Small solution as big Semantic Mediawiki may never work.

Mediawiki does not have a real parser (problem for data extraction)