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<p>Created page with &quot;==About== This page is for notes about giving MediaWiki a <a href="/mw/index.php?title=distributed_computing&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="distributed computing (page does not exist)">distributed computing</a> architecture. ==Description== The software is hosted on different servers, all of which are in...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==About==<br /> This page is for notes about giving MediaWiki a [[distributed computing]] architecture.<br /> ==Description==<br /> The software is hosted on different servers, all of which are in touch with each other.<br /> <br /> By default, changes made on one site are copied by all the others (this shouldn&#039;t be hard to do -- periodic polling of the &quot;recent changes&quot; RSS feed by each site lets it know when there is a change, and the data is copied via one of the &quot;?action=&quot; methods (I forget what it&#039;s called, but there is one which just returns the raw wikicode).<br /> <br /> Each site has a webmaster (who may act solo or may be part of a governance process), and the webmaster can cut off write-access to other sites (in addition to MediaWiki&#039;s existing individual user-rights controls) if their edits become too problematic.<br /> <br /> Having written several MW extensions, I think I can say with some confidence that this could all be done as a MW extension -- no core code changes needed.<br /> <br /> The only problem would be resolving inter-site edit conflicts. I can see at least a couple of ways of dealing with that.</div>

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