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If you are trying to understand the eBay communication APIs, then you have commited yourself to a BIG leaning curve.
As I have walked the walk already(I worked for eBay), I hope my experiences can help those who follow me up this monumental path..
All eBay programming APIs are designed to talk to the exposed eBay services. [...]

This is a list of all the important pages I have found in my hunt for development and programming information about mediawiki:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_Development - a good list of basic info.
Leading to:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_access
basics of database access inside mediaWiki extensions.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Image:Mediawiki-database-schema.png
Main Database Schema in large format png image
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Security
Security documentation, uptodate as of version 1.8.1
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extending_wiki_markup
How to write a markup extension.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_architecture
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Parser_function
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable

I have started to use GMail in a serious way over the last few weeks and I must say I am quite impressed. Instead of spending 30 minutes every day doing the spam hunt thing, I am now only killing a couple a day.
I love the conversation thing. Where a reply to a message [...]

Programming a mediaWiki extension relies on using the Hooking system to edit and update the mediawiki objects to the state you desire. So the first problem is finding the right hooks. I have found 3 ways to do this…
Using the documentation
There is a document called hooks.txt in the docs directory. Read it.
Finding undocumented hooks
At the [...]