On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, basedrop <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello, > I'm not sure if this is the place to pose this question, if not could you > respond with the proper place. > You'd probably get better replies on wikitech-l, but you're here already. > > I'm building out a social networking site centered around an "art" and > "arthistory" theme. I would like to display a real time dynamic version of > the arthistory section of the wikipedia at my domain. I would like for my > users to be able to edit this section at my domain. My domain is > arthistory.com. I am hoping to be able to provide a lot of acedemic and > specialty users to this section via my site. Sounds cool. > I think we could both benefit > from this relationship. My users have direct access to the arthistory > section of wikipedia, the wikipedia gets access to my users who are > experts > in the field. I understand you can get a feed of the wikipedia, and also > a database dump, but I'm looking for a more real time and dynamic > connection (without just putting the wikipedia in an iframe.) As a general rule of thumb, live mirrors are not allowed. > I'd also > prefer if I could use openID or some way of repurposing my user's > registration to duel register with my site and with wikipedia, and create a > login session for both simultaneously. > Not really possible. There's an openID extension for MediaWiki, but the WMF doesn't use it (yet?) and there's no way to dual-register with WMF sites and your own. > > I'm in the development stage so right now my efforts are exploratory. > Thank > you for your time. > > > > Michael > Best of luck to you. -Chad _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
