[Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia

[Chad]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, basedrop <basedrop at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I'm not sure if this is the place to pose this question,  if not could you
> respond with the proper place.
>

You'd probably get better replies on wikitech-l, but you're here already.


>
>  I'm building out a social networking site centered around an "art" and
> "arthistory" theme.  I would like to display a real time dynamic version of
> the arthistory section of the wikipedia at my domain.  I would like for my
> users to be able to edit this section at my domain.   My domain is
> arthistory.com.   I am hoping to be able to provide a lot of acedemic and
> specialty users to this section via my site.


Sounds cool.


>   I think we could both benefit
> from this relationship.  My users have direct access to the arthistory
> section of wikipedia,  the wikipedia gets access to my users who are
> experts
> in the field.    I understand you can get a feed of the wikipedia, and also
> a database dump,  but I'm looking for a more real time and dynamic
> connection  (without just putting the wikipedia in an iframe.)


As a general rule of thumb, live mirrors are not allowed.


>   I'd also
> prefer if I could use openID or some way of repurposing my user's
> registration to duel register with my site and with wikipedia, and create a
> login session for both simultaneously.
>

Not really possible. There's an openID extension for MediaWiki, but the
WMF doesn't use it (yet?) and there's no way to dual-register with WMF
sites and your own.


>
> I'm in the development stage so right now my efforts are exploratory.
>  Thank
> you for your time.
>
>
>
> Michael
>

Best of luck to you.

-Chad