Integrating Wikipedia With a Local Intranet Wiki

An anonymous reader writes "I work for a large company taking a preliminary look at developing an honest-to-goodness wiki. We have tried to launch a company-wide wiki before, but with little success. The technical domains of each part of the company are different, thus each article needs a good deal of background to be useful. Of course, due the proprietary nature of our work we cannot share our articles outside of the intranet. What we would like to do is leverage existing wikis by augmenting our internal wiki with an external wiki. When a user accesses Wikipedia from inside our intranet, they receive the wikipedia content, plus the local domain specific information. For example, links to company-specific wiki pages would be available in Wikipedia pages. Has anyone else tried to do something like this? I know it sounds like a logistical nightmare; are there any thoughts on how to make this successful?"

Comments

Re:bad idea

[jayminer]

Good idea. You can even use an existing add-on, Greasemonkey to do this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Download it

[Anonymous Coward]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database

Download their database, put it into your system, and you're set.

Solution

[Z34107]

Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be start with a complete dump of Wikipedia and add your own stuff to it. Their database dump page is here.

It is 2.8TB, however. They allude to a "Wikipedia API" for working on a "random subset" of Wikipedia; maybe that would be helpful too.

Re:Solution

[negge]

Why use a dump from early last year when you can have yesterdays (http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/)?

Re:Don't

[Anonymous Coward]

sheer