[Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia
Thomas Dalton
thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 20:30:29 UTC 2009
2009/2/19 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
> I think you are significantly overestimating the difficulty. We
> already have an API [1] and similar tools that allow one to accomplish
> many similar tasks. For example, calling ?action=render will give you
> a llive HTML version of any current page that could be wrapped in a
> external site's own framing and stylesheets (though one would need to
> rewrite the url roots in most cases). The API already has tools for
> logging in and out while authenticating against WMF servers. And
> there is even a write API, though I believe that is currently disabled
> on the main sites.
Ideally, you would want to authenticate in a way that doesn't give the
middle-man access to plaintext Wikimedia passwords.
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