2009/2/19 Robert Rohde <[email protected]>: > I think you are significantly overestimating the difficulty. We > already have an API [1] and similar tools that allow one to accomplish > many similar tasks. For example, calling ?action=render will give you > a llive HTML version of any current page that could be wrapped in a > external site's own framing and stylesheets (though one would need to > rewrite the url roots in most cases). The API already has tools for > logging in and out while authenticating against WMF servers. And > there is even a write API, though I believe that is currently disabled > on the main sites.
Ideally, you would want to authenticate in a way that doesn't give the middle-man access to plaintext Wikimedia passwords. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
