[Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia

[Robert Rohde]

I find the suggestion in this discussion fascinating.

Suppose we did allow fully functional wikipages to be loaded from WMF
servers and embedded in external sites in roughly the same way that
something like Google Maps can be embedded in third party sites.

I can see some practical problems (e.g. registration, server load),
but assumming the practical issues could be overcome, I think
philosophically this is actually in line with the free content goals
of the Foundation.  Obviously we already allow our content to be
copied and used far and wide, so  allowing others to host the content
would not be unusual.  It is simply a matter of whether live content
is achievable rather than static versions.  Provided the server load
problem could be managed in a reasonable way, I don't see any reason
we shouldn't want site owners to display the most up-to-date content
available.  And once you have live content, there is no particular
reason not to include edit links (either locally live or as a link
back into wikipedia.org).

Do other people agree that supporting live mirrors, if it could be
done in a practical manner, would be a natural extension of the
Foundation's free content goals?

-Robert Rohde