The French Wikipedia wasn't created by the Foundation. skype: node.ue
2009/2/18 basedrop <[email protected]>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
