Hello Thomas and thanks for your response. I would point out that the foundation created a French version, hosted it on French servers, in the French language because they saw the benefit of delivering something to a specific constituency.
I don't have a particular need to have the art history portion of the wiki editable for my users at my domain. I have the specialized users at my site, I'd like to take advantage of that aggregation of specialized users to the benefit of the wiki. If you guys don't have an API for me, I'm o.k. with that. Web content is becoming more integrated across multiple platforms and domains. People can post to Facebook from twitter. People can check Gmail from POP3 clients. People can post to a blog, and the data will instantly replicate over multiple blogs around the world. I can pull data from multiple sources and aggregate it with an rss feed reader. This is the direction content and the web is heading. Bring the users to one domain, and keep the content within that domain can be called the "walled garden" approach. It is not a bad one, when you have a need to control the users (e.g. facebook,) and the content. In the case of the wiki, I'd suggest a more democratic approach of bringing the wiki to the people. You already do that with a push version of the wiki, I'm just suggesting you take it one step further and make it editable. Imagine sections of the wiki, right where the experts are aggregated. Space.com hosting a concurrent version of the astronomy section. Technology at slashdot.org. Law at nolo.com... you get the drift. You guys consider this. In the mean time I'll build up my site and my user base. If there is a way to integrate in the future, I'll do that. I'm going to shoot for using openID, so this is just another reason for you guys to consider the use of openID as well. Michael -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:57 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia 2009/2/18 basedrop <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > I'm not sure if this is the place to pose this question, if not could you > respond with the proper place. > > 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. Possible, but unlikely to happen, I'm afraid. There is little to be gained for us compared to you just sending people to the main site. >I would like for my > users to be able to edit this section at my domain. I don't think that's possible - at best all the edits would be from a single account, and we don't really like group accounts. > 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. 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. We would very much like to encourage your users to edit Wikipedia, but it really would be much easier for us if they just came to our site. Is there some reason why they particularly need to be doing it from your site? > 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.) I don't know of anything like that being done before. If it's just one section of the site you could probably mirror it pretty well by crawling it once a day or so - we don't like people crawling the whole site, but one section shouldn't be a problem. If you want it completely up-to-date then you need to access the Wikipedia servers for each request, so you might as well just be on wikipedia.org > 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. I'm sorry, we don't use openID on Wikipedia. It has been suggested, and it's possible we will in the future, but we don't right now. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
