Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

2009-10-15 Thread Joshua Gay
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

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

2009-10-15 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >>> Then why are you using git? It turns out there are a few wikis built on top of git : 1. the git-wiki : http://atonie.org/2008/02/git-wiki http://github.com/jeffbski/git-wiki git-wiki is a wiki that relies on git to keep pages' histo

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

2009-10-15 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:40 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com >> wrote: >>> There are ways to optimize all of this. Most users will not want to >>> download the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

2009-10-15 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com > wrote: >> There are ways to optimize all of this. Most users will not want to >> download the full history. > > Then why are you using git? I am not most users. I am using

Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing scam

2009-10-15 Thread Joshua Gay
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 copyright

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

2009-10-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > There are ways to optimize all of this. Most users will not want to > download the full history. Then why are you using git? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikim

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

2009-10-15 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > It is cool that you get the complete history. > > But— it's a bit uncool that its about 14mbytes when the article is > 100k; understandable given that the expanded uncompressed history is > about 337mbytes... I have the uncompressed histo

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

2009-10-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:55 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hallo, > I have gotten the wikipedia article for Kosovo in git. > It is fast, distributed, highly compressed, redundant, branchable and usable. > > The blame function will show you who edited what version. > > Here Blame on t

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

2009-10-15 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hallo, I have gotten the wikipedia article for Kosovo in git. It is fast, distributed, highly compressed, redundant, branchable and usable. The blame function will show you who edited what version. Here Blame on the up to date kosovo article! http://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/KosovoWikipedia/blame/mas