Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

2009-01-20 Thread private musings
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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

2009-01-20 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:18 AM, K. Peachey wrote: >> 2 problems. Export on Wikipedia only gets about 100 revisions rather >> than the full history, > > Wouldn't that be breaking the GFDL? > It's not by choice -- it's a technical barrier. Anyway, to get around that you can do something like: "Fr

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

2009-01-20 Thread Gnangarra
The articles dont need to be drawn from en.wikipedia there are version available on http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 2009/1/20 Andrew > (I'll note just by way of clarification that in saying "teachers generally > avoid anything that creates work for them", I was meaning - having been i

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew
(I'll note just by way of clarification that in saying "teachers generally avoid anything that creates work for them", I was meaning - having been in a busy staff room for several weeks in 2007 - that they already have *more* than enough to do without more being expected of them. Burnout is a real

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew
Keep in mind re "writing down" to students that it's actually the curriculum, not the content, that educators are focussed on. At primary school level it's the outcomes handbooks. At middle school it tends to be those and the balance of established textbooks in the area. At upper high school it's t

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

2009-01-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jan-20 12:15:45 +1100, private musings wrote: >I'm aware of quite a few discussions in this area, and believe it's a great >direction for the chapter to pursue... it's certainly something that I'm up >for working on as a fun and interesting project. > >I was chatting with Werdna about how