2010/1/27 Alejandro Tejada <capellan2...@gmail.com> David Bovill-3 wrote: > > > > I use it to move articles around between MediaWikis and > > provide additional tools that MediaWiki does not have. > > > > According to your description, this code looks like > the startpoint for a commercial application for > wiki administrators. ;-) >
Yes - I thought of that though more in the line of a very good way of getting the revWeb Plugin used by lots of people. > David, Could you create code that: > > Verify (for a user selected list of articles) if offline XML Wikitext is > not identical to online XML Wikitext, then download news XMLs, > compress them as gzip and save a file to a folder in writable media? > Yes - I think all of that is pretty much there. The only question would be the format of the XML. I mainly use the wikitext format, so I'd have to get my head around how you / the project want it packaged. A more advanced version could just store a diff between these > two XML Wikitext. > Yes - I use git for that to store a versioned file system locally, and allow sharing between users horizontally. > Your code could work as a "deliberately slow" mechanism to update > Wikis XML databases. > Yes - though I see a greater use in creating forks of WikiPedia for specific uses (teaching for instance). Notice that Wikipedia have warned against creating applications that > download too many pages in a short time frame. > > Many thanks for offering your help for this project! > Happy to work on it / contribute what I can. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
