On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, basedrop <basedrop(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the place to pose this question, if not could you
respond with the proper place.
You'd probably get better replies on wikitech-l, but you're here already.
I'm building out a social networking site centered around an "art" and
"arthistory" theme. I would like to display a real time dynamic version of
the arthistory section of the wikipedia at my domain. I would like for my
users to be able to edit this section at my domain. My domain is
arthistory.com. I am hoping to be able to provide a lot of acedemic and
specialty users to this section via my site.
Sounds cool.
I think we could both benefit
from this relationship. My users have direct access to the arthistory
section of wikipedia, the wikipedia gets access to my users who are
experts
in the field. I understand you can get a feed of the wikipedia, and also
a database dump, but I'm looking for a more real time and dynamic
connection (without just putting the wikipedia in an iframe.)
As a general rule of thumb, live mirrors are not allowed.
I'd also
prefer if I could use openID or some way of repurposing my user's
registration to duel register with my site and with wikipedia, and create a
login session for both simultaneously.
Not really possible. There's an openID extension for MediaWiki, but the
WMF doesn't use it (yet?) and there's no way to dual-register with WMF
sites and your own.
I'm in the development stage so right now my efforts are exploratory.
Thank
you for your time.
Michael
Best of luck to you.
-Chad