Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 08/15/2011 06:29 PM, emijrp wrote: > The mankind is compiling all human knowledge in an encyclopedia, which is > hosted in faulty metal plates spinning thousand times per minute, managed by > faulty humans and located only in one or two locations in the world > (Florida, the land of hurricanes

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-15 Thread emijrp
2011/8/14 Krinkle > Hi all, > > 've read most of the previous mails so far. I'd like to clear some > confusion > (just in case). Please do correct me if I'm wrong and got caught > by the confusion myself: > > The thread is about one of the following: > * .. the ability to clone a MediaWiki instal

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-14 Thread David Gerard
On 14 August 2011 13:46, Krinkle wrote: > The thread is about one of the following: > * .. the ability to clone a MediaWiki install and upload it to your own domain > to continue making edits, writing articles etc. > * .. getting better dumps of Wikimedia wikis in particular (ie. Wikipedia) > * .

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-14 Thread Krinkle
Hi all, 've read most of the previous mails so far. I'd like to clear some confusion (just in case). Please do correct me if I'm wrong and got caught by the confusion myself: The thread is about one of the following: * .. the ability to clone a MediaWiki install and upload it to your own domain t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-13 Thread emijrp
Yes, that tool looks similar to the idea I wrote. Other approaches may be possible too. 2011/8/13 John Vandenberg > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:53 AM, emijrp wrote: > > Man, Gerard is thinking about new methods to fork (in an easy way) single > > articles, sets of articles or complete wikipedias,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-13 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:53 AM, emijrp wrote: > Man, Gerard is thinking about new methods to fork (in an easy way) single > articles, sets of articles or complete wikipedias, and people reply about > setting up servers/mediawiki/importing_databases and other geeky weekend > parties. That is why t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-12 Thread emijrp
Man, Gerard is thinking about new methods to fork (in an easy way) single articles, sets of articles or complete wikipedias, and people reply about setting up servers/mediawiki/importing_databases and other geeky weekend parties. That is why there is no successful forks. Forking Wikipedia is _hard_