Wiki Web Service

The WikiWebService is a component of the planned WikiDocs. This component will display pages from the MusicBrainzWiki as uneditable webpages within the normal header, footer, menubar etc. of the MainSite.

Old /wd/ Mechanism

MatthiasFriedrich explained me how the content of a MoinMoin wiki page is displayed on the MusicBrainz MainSite:

• When you request a page like http://www.musicbrainz.org/wd/AboutMusicBrainz, the wd/AboutMusicBrainz is rewritten to a different URL: /docs.html?id=AboutMusicBrainz.
• The code inside of docs.html calls a mason component. This mason component loads a page via HTTP-GET from the MoinMoin wiki that is located at http://wikidocs.musicbrainz.org (Note that this is the old and deprectated WikiDocs, that can be edited at http://wikidocs.musicbrainz.org/write/ (restricted access)).
• The mason component reads the wiki via the URL http://wikidocs.musicbrainz.org/read/AboutMusicBrainz?action=content (restricted as well).
• some link rewriting is done with the requested content to fix problems with relative links. The the wiki returns some links like '[http:/page.html http:/page.html]' (relative links). These are rewritten to absolute links (http://www.musicbrainz.org/page.html)
• Finally the page is displayed on the website, inside ouf our usual framework (header, sidebar, footer).

New /doc/ Meachnism

• The webservice must differentiate between pages that are listed in the ModeratedRevisionTable and pages which are not listed, and serve the appropriate revision of the page.
• The url should be changed so something more meaningful, since most mb urls will have that form. I suggest http://www.musicbrainz.org/doc/AboutMusicBrainz .