It's possible, but it would be a little ugly. You could write a web frontend to what would basically be a proxy handling the work on the backend over the api. However, there is no secure way for a user to login through something like that, so all of the edits would have to come from your app and not the user. Alternatively, you could write a javascript (or flash) application, and get it approved to make CORS/crossdomain requests to the target MediaWiki api, so the user would be making api calls directly. Getting the wiki admin to approve domains, or add a crossdomain.xml file may or may not be a problem for you. OAuth will make the delegated authorization easier, but unfortunately the priority for getting OAuth integrated with MediaWiki is lower than some other critical projects right now, so it will be a few months before this is possible. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.juriy(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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There is no such client to the best of my knowledge. But here I don't think much about the big-text-projects like wikipedia: more about the projects where users need to - vote for the articles or - add really small fragments of text - or link page together via Semantic MediaWiki properties or - categorize and tagged the articles... these are all very small activities. The idea is that those activities can be shown in the social network MW-client in the most easy-to-consume way to the very broad audience. Or maybe they can be even gamified! ----- Yury Katkov On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Maybe we can brainstorm this idea a little bit together? I have several crowdsourcing projects and I always suspect that the pure wiki editing requires too much motivation and it's not the best approach in many cases. ----- Yury Katkov On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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(a)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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.juriy(a)gmail.com> wrote: Well what if people can click on a bit of text and comment on it, they could suggest in that comment that the text is replaced. mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l