Excerpts from Adam Wight's message of Mon Jul 16 18:22:22 -0400 2012: > Hello comrades, > I've run into a challenge too interesting to keep to myself ;) My > immediate goal is to prototype an "offline" wikipedia, similar to Kiwix, > which allows the end-user to make edits and synchronize them back to a > central repository like enwiki. > > The catch is, how to insert these changes without edit conflicts? With > linear revision numbering, I can't imagine a natural representation of > the data, only some kind of ad-hoc sandbox solution. > > Extending the article revision numbering to represent a branching > history would be the natural way to handle optimistic replication. > > Non-linear revisioning might also facilitate simpler models for page > protection, and would allow the formation of multiple, independent > consensuses.
There is a tool for managing non-linear history in mediawiki data sets. It's actually a combination of git, the version control system, and the MediaWiki API. It's called git-remote-mediawiki. First, I'll quote its documentation: <quote> Getting started with Git-Mediawiki Then, the first operation you should do is cloning the remote mediawiki. To do so, run the command git clone mediawiki::http://yourwikiadress.com You can commit your changes locally as usual with the command git commit </quote> You can read more here: https://github.com/Bibzball/Git-Mediawiki/wiki/User-manual I've been enjoying it lately, though it has some rough edges. It is under periodic development, and in the near future I plan to make more of a user community around it. It is probably entirely unwiedly to use on English Wikipedia directly, but it could be adjusted to permit the importing of database dumps, and then let people branch off those. -- Asheesh. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
