Many thanks Jim. I will try this out in the next few days and report back.
David Leeming
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From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Jim Tittsler
Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2010 9:12 a.m.
To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] offline WikiEducator
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:45, David Leeming
da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote:
So the question is, would it be possible to export a section of the WE
(i..e.
my Patukae pages - for example) containing the required templates and
WE-specific files, and then install them on a standard mediawiki
installation running offline?
You can use http://WikiEducator.org/Special:Export to export the pages
of interest (especially easy if you are interested in a particular
category). The administrator of the other wiki can then import that
XML using the Special:Import page. Unfortunately that does not pull
image/file data (which would require additional scripting).
Jim
P.S. Other ideas:
1. You could script something to pull the pages and their images,
similar to the way I build the offline manual for eXe.
http://exe.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=exe/exe;a=blob;f=tools/getMa
nual.py;h=a24bbe73049dcdf628c61749dd471cdbe13b1d72;hb=HEAD
Given the MediaWiki API, you could script something that pulled
wikitext (and even images/files) from one and wrote them into the
other (significantly simplified if you didn't need to maintain history
or worry about merging changes).
2. We can export into LMS package formats, so the content (including
images) can be displayed in Moodle rather than a wiki.
3. We may have the ability to export Collections/Books in ePUB format
in the next few months.
4. I think it could be interesting to see ZIM files for subsets of
WikiEducator.
http://www.openzim.org/Main_Page
I'd love to work on the concept of federating wikis that were not
permanently connected, but there are a lot of edge cases to consider.
Going one direction (via export and import) is workable today.
This is a topic I find extremely interesting, but which could quickly
get out of scope for this list. I encourage you to join the
wikieducator-tech mailing list if there is something here that sounds
worth collaborating on.
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