[Mediawiki-l] Letting other websites use wiki content

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Fri May 27 22:22:03 UTC 2011


Eric K wrote:
> Suppose we have a wiki, and we want other websites (blogs and any other sites) to use our wiki content. 
> For example say the wiki has different types of random facts about countries. When someone visits a blog, they can see a box where that random fact is presented, and that data is drawn from the wiki.
> Whats the best way to do this? RSS?
> Someone suggested Semantic Mediawiki and I'm looking into that, but I thought I'll ask if anyone else knows what the best way is for a blog or external site to display dynamically generated content that is drawn from the wiki.
>  
> thanks
> Eric

You could ask the api for the page content and show its answer in the
box. I don't think Semantic Mediawiki makes a difference for embedding
(it may be an improvement for organising the data before).




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