have you seen the customization that wikia.com has done? it is a step
in the right direction for social integration.

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Chris Steipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's possible, but it would be a little ugly. You could write a web
> frontend to what would basically be a proxy handling the work on the
> backend over the api. However, there is no secure way for a user to
> login through something like that, so all of the edits would have to
> come from your app and not the user. Alternatively, you could write a
> javascript (or flash) application, and get it approved to make
> CORS/crossdomain requests to the target MediaWiki api, so the user
> would be making api calls directly. Getting the wiki admin to approve
> domains, or add a crossdomain.xml file may or may not be a problem for
> you.
>
> OAuth will make the delegated authorization easier, but unfortunately
> the priority for getting OAuth integrated with MediaWiki is lower than
> some other critical projects right now, so it will be a few months
> before this is possible.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Yury Katkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> Is it possible to use MediaWiki as a service whereas the UI is located
>> on a Facebook app? So all the editing and viewing is take place on a
>> Facebook and MediaWiki provide the storage, revision control and lots
>> of extensions?
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