Over time, Mediawiki has seen a lot of improvements in how it deals with other wikis. With the API, a standard interface was given for automated systems to talk to Mediawiki. With the current FileRepo, we can have alternate wikis act as file repositories (long live InstantCommons!).

However, this system does not extend to interwiki information. It is impossible for me–coming from my wiki–to know information about the interwiki’s site, outside of the index.php interface. The API is entirely hidden!

Had some ideas for execution of this last night. I’ll see if I can’t solidify a bit of this today.