On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:12 PM, OQ <overlordq@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:59 PM, AT <reg@saneplanet.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Question: is it possible to display the latest version of a wikipedia.org
> page in another mediawiki site simply by GET using the API:import? Or is
> there an easier way?

Yes.

> I've already read about xml export/import. But I need the latest version of
> the page and not have to constantly export from wikipedia manually.
>
> So is it possible to create a URL for each target page so that on the fly
> pulls the content of a particular wikipedia.org page in the destination
> site? A 1:1 relationship.

In the past it was generally considered 'Not Nice' (tm) to live mirror
wikipedia, although it was somewhat allowed if you had a reasonable
cache time to avoid requesting the page every time you had a visitor.

I'm not sure what the current consensus is by the tech team.

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