[snip]
On a related note... have you looked at the AtomPub
spec for uploading? I dodn't
look too closely, but it seems worth considering.
Had not seen it before.. looks good but I imagine its use would be
dictated via a particular content partner upload in that ingestion
format and us having the time resources to enhance the mediaWiki
uploading system in a way that took advantage of the AtomPub spec. (ie
not very likely to happen) ... probably easier for the content provider
to write something custom for wikimedia then for us to try and write a
general collections api / AtomPub support (that assumes AtomPub is
supported in some client/content provider side archive systems... which
I am not sure is a reality.
--michael