Yes, that's a good example of how to be closer to people. However I
think that the MediaWiki social network client can be use in case of
really big crowdsourcing projects where we want to grasp a large
amount of people. Most of the Russian internet users sitting in vk.com
social network all the time.
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Yury Katkov



On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Mike  Dupont
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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