First and foremost, many thanks to Brian Flad and Core Systems’ UNIX Team for configuring MediaWiki, providing tested mass import mechanisms, and setting up MySQL replication. It’s one thing to setup a service for public use -- it’s another to make it public, accessible, and usable. By skimming the recent changes page, it’s easy to see that the platform is gaining traction as several groups have started using it.
In order to show our gratitude, Jamie Ly of Learning Lab and I decided to build a web application that would visualize the recent changes page. To accomplish this several things had to happen:
- Populate recent changes data into a datastore independent of MediaWiki’s
- Make t