On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:54 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Elliott Hird
> <penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Wikidot is just a bad VCS (does it even handle non-linear edits? I
> > doubt it.) operating on a bad document format with an awful interface
> > that requires javascript and that has no way to get non-HTML out of
> > it; even scraping is prohibited by its TOS, and as a result it's
> > decreasing the quality of our reports for no gain -- in fact,
> > anti-gain, since the Notary has to use it.
> >
> > Discuss.
> 
> No one's forcing the Notary to use it.  Discuss.

The data's all there, and we're left with no legal recourse to get it
back again as Wikidot don't allow automated scraping; the Notary reports
are "manual scraping" by copy/paste. So migrating back would be rather
tricky and time-consuming, although probably possible.

-- 
ais523

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