hi!
Both to increase submission volume/quality and to
benefit
Mediawiki-using sites, are there any plans to develop an XMLRPC style
external editing protocol, such that editors like MarsEdit and ecto can
interface with Mediawiki?
yes, quite a lot of plans.. see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Client
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine-friendly_wiki_interface
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiText_Transfer_Protocol
Ideally they would be able to:
Search for articles
Edit the text of articles
start new ones
get internally generated lists (such as new articles, recently edited
articles)
revert pages, get access to previous versions' texts
Any thoughts on whether this would be worthwhile? Any other features
which might be useful?
yes: resolve links between different mediawiki. instances.
daniel