On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:44 AM, OQ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:02 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I get my best ideas when I can't do anything about them. >> >> I was thinking about what happens on my wiki when a user clicks on a Red >> Link now. On my drive back from my office I realized that I could write a >> PHP, that queries for that page on en:Wikipedia and if it exists, pulls the >> contents over and display it in my wiki as if it were there, but with a >> header >> that it came from Wikipedia. >> >> Is there already such a gizmo? Or am I going to have to Go Fish? > > No, because remote loading is an unacceptable use of the website and > likely to get you blocked. >
You mean it's not proper to hotlink and retrieve the pages on each request. I'm sure pulling content and then caching it locally for some period of time would be perfectly acceptable. That's essentially what InstantCommons does anyway. -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
