[Taginfo-dev] How about parsing OSM Wiki pages from Wiki Dumps/Exports (instead online)?

[Jochen Topf]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:34:37AM +0200, Stefan Keller wrote:
> I have a proposal: As far as I remember Taginfo uses the MediaWiki
> (online/realtime) API to periodically make a full crawl of all
> existing OSM Wiki pages.

No, it doesn't do a full crawl. It only looks at the wiki page it needs. Thats
much less.

> => Would'nt it be better and even faster when Taginfo would access the
> Wiki Dumps/Exports instead from here
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki#Wiki_Dumps_.2F_Export ?

I looked into that, but the Mediawiki API gave me easier access to the parts I
need than the full dump.

Jochen
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