Hi Amit,
The Wikipedia Android app isn't intended to be a general purpose MediaWiki
app. The app does support switching backends via developer preferences,
but there are many assumptions throughout the codebase that are specific to
the production Wikipedias. We use backend switching mainly for testing
against environments such as the Beta Cluster
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Cluster> or MediaWiki-Vagrant
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant>. The app wouldn't work
"out of the box" with an arbitrary MediaWiki installation.
There is some demand for a general purpose MediaWiki mobile app. Please
see the Phabricator ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107042> for
related discussion.
Best,
Michael
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Amit Ahlawat <aahlawat(a)syr.edu> wrote:
Hello Wikimedia
I have a question regarding the open source server and android code
available from wikimedia, specifically those at the links below:
Server side:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
Android:
https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia
I want to host my own wiki using the mediawiki source on a server. I want
to ask whether the open source wikipedia app allows connection to mediawiki
servers not owned by Wikipedia.
Thanks,
Amit
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