2009/1/21 private musings <thepmacco...@gmail.com>: > mornin' all.... > > it's great to see people talking about this - and I particularly agree with > Andrew that there's a good chance we could do something great here :-) > > So far, I've been more interested in giving people 'bite size' wikipedia's > to play with / learn from from the angle of learning about wiki, and > developing 'wiki skills', more than driving the quality of the article, or > even the content delivered - I see this as strongly in synergy with the HSC > syllabus for example - although it's important to note that this isn't at > all in tension with also delivering top draw quality of content. > > The technical problems angela raised are easy enough to check out, I hope - > I don't really know what 'API' means I'm afraid, but the screen on wikipedia > says that it exports 1,000 revisions, so I'm wondering if it's wrong, or if > Angela left out a 0? Further, the whole 'only 2MB will work' thing is a bit > of a bummer, and I thought I'd take up James' (or any sysop on the WMAU wiki > who's up for it) offer to try out the Special:Import function. > > I've created two 'XML Dumps' - one of the capital cities of Australia, and > one of the Prime Ministers of Australia - I think I may have accidentally > clicked some sort of 'grab the whole entire wiki' button yesterday, because > I cancelled the download at some 300+ Megs when I wanted to turn off the > machine - doing it from home has resulted in a far more friendly 15 Meg for > each file - far more than the 2 mentioned, but let's see if it works! > > Any helpful sysop can download the dumps from here; > http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f526a76ad2e1a96291b20cc0d07ba4d2637696439eb61065 > > Although give it a few mins - it's still uploading as I type :-) > > As I (think) I mentioned, I'm still very much at the feasibility stage, but > would invite everyone interested in developing this idea to sign up, and > 'dive in' helping it take shape; > > http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools%27_Wikipedia_Australia
I've not been following all of this, but ... I dont think it would be appropriate to import Wikipedia articles into the organisation wiki, which should be used for ... *organising*. If we need to build a resource that isnt a collection of encyclopedia articles, it should be developed on Wikibooks. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
