This page is for proposing and discussing interwiki integration ideas. These ideas seek to fix the following bugs, while also enabling more interconnection among the wikis of the wikisphere as a whole, in ways not contemplated by these bugs:
Bug Description 11 Red interwiki links -- check for page existence across wikis 708 Interproject links 1066 Cross-wiki talk page notification 1837 Search all wikis at once 3525 Cross-wiki watchlists 3544 Single recent changes on several MediaWikis 9890 Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion 11423 Central database for interwiki 14234 Create a way to change home wiki in CentralAuth 15607 Implement the Interlanguage extension in Wikipedia 16568 Create a hub devoted to cross-wiki data exchange 23741 Resolve searchNs collisions on wiki farms with a shared user table 23999 Provide method to store API/DB information for interwiki sites 27696 It should be possible to see the changes to the interwiki page in the watchlistCreate a central database/website as a clearinghouse for interwiki data sharing. Have local wikis retrieve data from it (e.g. for producing interwiki watchlists, recentchanges, and existence-detecting links) via the backend, and allow remote wikis to either (1) pull data from it or (2) subscribe to a service in which the clearinghouse website will periodically push updates to those remote wikis via their APIs. The shared central database will contain wikispace and langspace fields, in addition to the already-supported namespace fields, in the appropriate tables. Pages would be accessible as follows:
This will enable both existence-detecting links to "absolute" addresses (e.g. http://wikimedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:en:Portal:Geography ) and (as is already the case) to "relative addresses" (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/Portal:Geography ). As is already the case, users would not necessarily need to type in the full page title (including wikispace and langspace); if the user is on, say, enwiki and types in Portal:Geography, the software will assume he means wikipedia:en:Portal:Geography.
Make necessary changes to dozens/hundreds of core and extension files. E.g. parameters will need to be added to many functions, and new variables will need to be added to many class objects. Many aspects of the user interface, including special pages and the API, will need to be revised to make use of the new fields. In the central database, add the following database fields, and implement the associated functionality to make use of them:
Advantages and disadvantages[edit]There was an idea to consolidate all local wikis' databases into one big database with different wikispaces and langspaces: "All configuration settings will need to be unified for the one big wikifarm, which might require changing some of them to arrays in order to maintain customizability of individual wikis." This idea was rejected due to performance concerns related to the difficulty/impossibility of scaling such a huge database to a multi-server system, and the probable difficulty of getting the community to accept such an extensive revision of core code.
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