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. ----- 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? >>> ----- >>> Yury Katkov >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com > Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
