Accessing wiki content from another web app

[Adam Sommer]

Hello,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Ahmed Kamal <ahmed.kamal at canonical.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been asked to work on building a consolidated web portal for
> everything that relates to Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. Part of what I want
> to do is to gather lots of documentation pages from the wiki, and
> present them in a consolidated manner on that portal. I think it's a
> good idea to keep the content on the wiki, where it's easy to edit for
> everyone, while dynamically pulling content from the wiki to construct
> that consolidated reading material in an eye pleasing manner. The web
> application will most likely be a Django app. The way I am imagining how
> to pull this off, is to have the Django app connect to the wiki using
> its API (xmlrpc or similar) and pull the contents of its pages, which
> then renders them in a way that blends with the look and feel of the
> portal.
>
> Since you are more experienced with documentation related issues, I
> would like to ask if the approach I am taking seems correct. Any
> feedback, pointers (or sample code) is more than welcome.
>
> Please put me in To: when replying, since I'm not on the list
>
>

Seems like this approach should work fine.  I guess my only suggestion is to
make sure to review any content pulled from the wiki for accuracy, but on
the other hand wiki's are easy to edit :-).

Sound like an interesting project, if there's any other way I, or the doc
team, can help please let us know.

Thanks.


-- 
Party On,
Adam
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