Server Setup

The servers are in!

We are getting very close to the launch of the new Wikimedia Mobile site!

Ruby support for MediaWiki

Well, as some of you might know, we are using Ruby/Merb to run the services layer for Mobile Wikipedia. And, the first steps are being taken now. Basically, I am structuring several interconnected sub-projects that will all come together to create the mobile services platform that should take the Wikimedia Foundation into the fuuuuuuutttuuuuureeeeee.

The first of these is mediawiki-ruby. Its a pretty basic library. Actually, to be clear, its a *rediculously* simple library right now. Its total code size is really just one line (or could be).

But, it needs to grow a lot to support the things we are going to be doing with Ruby into the future. Eventually it will be our full API mapping of the mediawiki api services.

Right now, you can just go Mediawiki.search_for_html("en.wikipedia.org", "Sushi") and get back the html for that page (not the template, just the article data).

However, I'm making it its own project because I'm looking for developers to take it under their wing.

If you want to help with this, or with other projects, email me! hcatlin@wikimedia.org

Also, here is the git repo: http://github.com/hcatlin/mediawiki-ruby/tree/master