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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?"
I assume you want up to date content and to have it clearly seperated from what is yours. Why not enclose the content within an IFRAME? Seriously, it's stupid and simple but might be all you need. Alternatively you coudl use some form of an intelligent proxy/page modifier, either as a mediawiki plugin or whatever floats your boat (i.e. every time a page is loaded also try to get the wikipedia stuff).
"What we would like to do is leverage existing wikis by augmenting our internal wiki with an external wiki"
What does that even mean? If you want to design something, you'll have to use more precise language. And for god's sake, stop using the word leverage without thinking about it. You used it backwards - if you are augmenting your internal wiki with external wikis, you are leveraging your internal wiki with the external wikis. You leverage a boulder with a lever, but you don't leverage a lever with a boulder.
Agreed. Appending to wikipedia is the ass backwards way to do it. Everyone suggesting greasemonkey and other addons are just enabling your backassery.
What you do is create an internal wiki, and wherever relevent you link to the wikipedia article. Or an external doc. Or nothing at all and expect your employees to look it up on their own.
Noise.
It's a good place to bury the signal.
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