[Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

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.