I will apply for an account when It is ready for integration.
this is still in experimentation mode.
The git replaces the mysql database.
But there is alot more work to do to make this viable.
thanks for all your encouragement and support.
Since there are other people out there, perhaps
I have submitted the following to GNU.org
It doesn't make sense to send something like this to a gnu.org mailing list.
The GNU project does not accept copyrights in any official capacity--that
work is done by the FSF. And, it's really only worth emailing them if people
actually assigned
This is very awesome. I am in the early stages of trying to scope out a
small side project to do a mediawiki - git bridge; it is very
challenging. Being able to download the complete edit history in this
fashion is extremely useful. Thank you very much for sharing this work.
-Josh
On Fri, Oct
So, I think that such a project works well with the concept of NPOV. I think
you can break the site into two distinct parts.
Part 1: You collect opinions of various sorts in various ways.
Part 2: You organize them in terms of their relative significance to each
other and summarize them in a
David Strauss did a quick implementation (basically a demo) of an
OpenLibrary extension for MediaWiki. In very little amount of code, he was
able to easily search the OL (via AJAX) and when the user selected a given
result, it poppulated a Citation template. What was nice is that when no
results
Interesting, I didn't know that. Is this demo available somewhere?
Here is a demo of it up and running:
http://ol.fkbuild.com/w/index.php/Main_Page
Click edit and then click on the OL button on the tool bar and enter a
search item.
Also, I think someone I shared this with had trouble getting
This won't work. The problem is that these books are not being clearly
marketed as printed Wikipedia articles. So, marketing your books as up to
date printed versions of Wikipedia articles isn't going to be competing with
these books.
I recommend doing a positive campaign where you encourage
When I worked for the FSF I helped to run a campaign against the
Amazon Kindle (and, DRM in general). We did an action called The
Kindle Swindle in which we asked people to tag all DRM ebooks and the
kindle itself with the tags kindle swindle and DRM.
People went ahead and tagged close to a
