On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:49, comex<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Roger Hicks<[email protected]> wrote: >> In any case, if ais523 doesn't want the job I'll happily do it. After >> the complaints about Wikidot, I started a manual copy from the notary >> wiki to my database. I'm about 2/3 of the way done at this point. >> >> BobTHJ > > Sorry, I'm in a bad mood today but... > > This is ridiculous. Nobody is going to enforce wikidot's ToS for such > a trivial violation as scraping a few pages. I for one don't > particularly mind the wikidot interface, though I'm only reading not > editing, but if H. Notary ais523 doesn't like it, scrape the content > and start a new wiki already! BobTHJ, if you're talking about > nomic.bob-space.com, please don't do that. I can't see any advantage > of hosting it there over a wiki, which provides many useful features > (diffing, tags...) for "free" that you'd have to reimplement, or not. > I was planning on doing it anyway, and at this point it is almost complete. Tags, diffing, etc. is not difficult to implement. However, just because I'm putting it all on my site is in no way meant to suggest that the Notary shouldn't ditch the idea of a wiki. I'm doing it more for the sake of providing a convenient service rather than trying to re-inventing the wheel.
By the way, while a wiki is well-suited to the Notary data, the primary advantage I saw for replicating it on my site was so it could be integrated with the other data I'm already tracking (I was already tracking contests, partnerships, and some economic contracts). BobTHJ BobTHJ
