Wow, nice! Ok, it's possible to log the users in (with some warnings but still). Very well.
The goal here is to substitute the complex MediaWiki UI with some simple and beautifully-looking social network apps to eventually bring more users to the wiki.
Mike Dupont started the list of activities that can be done for the wiki using the social network UI: 1) commenting, likes What other one-click valuable activities I can imagine: 2) Voting and rating the articles. Agreeing or disagreeing with some small sections. 3) making friends that will be reflected in the wiki with the help of social extensions 4) reading news. RSS of any wiki sucks and here the admins can form the human-readable news about the life on a wiki 5) categorizing articles or (much better) images and media files
I'm not sure that '''editing''' can be made more easy with the help of social network client. Any ideas on that? any ideas on what else can be made more engaging with the power of social networks?
----- Yury Katkov
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Markus Glaser glaser@hallowelt.biz wrote:
Hi Yury,
we experimented with MediaWiki as a Facebook-App. Basically this is using MW in an iFrame and passing through the Facebook authentication. Articles can be liked and commented via FB. When you edit something, it publishes that to the user's stream.
Here's a prototype, in German though: https://www.facebook.com/ComputerTest/app_242056765902153
Cheers, Markus
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Yury Katkov Gesendet: Montag, 1. Oktober 2012 19:45 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list; Wikimedia developers Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Using mediawiki from within the Social networks?
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
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