At 3:16 PM -0400 4/26/06, Ivan Krstic wrote:
FWIW, I'd discourage this being taken on as a SoC
project
this summer, since it's a complicated problem that needs
significant up-front discussion with a variety of people
before any code should be written.
I would love to see a first-cut API get developed, to take
the place of Pywikipedia. I think that waiting until the
"correct" API has been determined is inappropriate. Get
something usable, robust, and reasonably speedy in place;
then look for ways to refine and/or replace it over time.
-r
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