I hope you realize that doesn't make any sense. If the WMF didn't exist, how could it host anything at all?
skype: node.ue 2009/2/19 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > Hoi, > The French Wikipedia may pre-date the WMF but the hosting of the French > Wikipedia has always been done by the WMF. So your argument is a bit flaky. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/2/19 Mark Williamson <[email protected]> > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
