On 8/10/06, Raffi Kojian armenia@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure other ways of implementing this would be possible, but the basic idea I think (and hope you agree) is a good one.
It sounds very much in keeping with the goals of Wikipedia's freeness. Depending on how many articles are involved, your best bets might be: * regularly grabbing the Wikitext page via some web-enabled script (and locking the page to prevent people editing it) * regularly downloading a whole database dump, and pulling out the few pages that you want * Using cross-wiki links (like [[w:George W Bush]] instead of [[George W Bush]]) - not sure about the configuration required to make that happen * Trying to do something tricky whereby the content of the [[George W Bush]] page is dynamically sucked from Wikipedia, and the edit button actually does edit it on Wikipedia.
Note that several of these techniques are explicitly prohibited ("live mirroring" and all that), so you'd want to get permission before doing any of them, and obviously they'd only be practical if the demand would be quite low.
Steve