I hope that a small feasibility test might be considered part of the organising of such a project - and indeed am not entirely sure that some home at the chapter wiki might be a good fit (although I haven't really thought about this much, and don't really mind!) - I wonder if the import of just the capital cities articles, followed, if appropriate, by their deletion, wouldn't cause too much trouble.
It would have the great benefit of letting us (me) know if the Special:Import function works like it says on the tin, or if per Angela it kinda doesn't. Apologies for doubling this email, James (who gets an 'offlist' cc because he was kind enough to offer to try this previously!) - but here's the xml dump link again; http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f526a76ad2e1a96291b20cc0d07ba4d2637696439eb61065 cheers, Peter PM. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:24 PM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/1/21 private musings <[email protected]>: > > 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 wiki, and > > developing 'wiki skills', more than driving the quality of the article, > or > > even the content delivered - I see this as strongly in synergy with the > HSC > > syllabus for example - although it's important to note that this isn't at > > all in tension with also delivering top draw quality of content. > > > > The technical problems angela raised are easy enough to check out, I hope > - > > I don't really know what 'API' means I'm afraid, but the screen on > wikipedia > > says that it exports 1,000 revisions, so I'm wondering if it's wrong, or > if > > Angela left out a 0? Further, the whole 'only 2MB will work' thing is a > bit > > of a bummer, and I thought I'd take up James' (or any sysop on the WMAU > wiki > > who's up for it) offer to try out the Special:Import function. > > > > I've created two 'XML Dumps' - one of the capital cities of Australia, > and > > one of the Prime Ministers of Australia - I think I may have accidentally > > clicked some sort of 'grab the whole entire wiki' button yesterday, > because > > I cancelled the download at some 300+ Megs when I wanted to turn off the > > machine - doing it from home has resulted in a far more friendly 15 Meg > for > > each file - far more than the 2 mentioned, but let's see if it works! > > > > Any helpful sysop can download the dumps from here; > > > http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f526a76ad2e1a96291b20cc0d07ba4d2637696439eb61065 > > > > Although give it a few mins - it's still uploading as I type :-) > > > > As I (think) I mentioned, I'm still very much at the feasibility stage, > but > > would invite everyone interested in developing this idea to sign up, and > > 'dive in' helping it take shape; > > > > http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools%27_Wikipedia_Australia > > I've not been following all of this, but ... I dont think it would be > appropriate to import Wikipedia articles into the organisation wiki, > which should be used for ... *organising*. > > If we need to build a resource that isnt a collection of encyclopedia > articles, it should be developed on Wikibooks. > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >
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