External Data grows again
The latest version of the External Data extension now lets you get data from two other sources (in addition to APIs and text files): LDAP servers, and database tables. This is a nice step forward, in that it’s no longer completely necessary to create an API for every data source you want to access from the wiki; which makes the concept of using MediaWiki for data integration potentially simpler and less breakable. Thanks to David Macdonald for this new functionality.