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@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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