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On 04/04/10 15:15, Dror Levin wrote: |
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> At first, I'd wish for things to be migrated from the unofficial wiki |
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> (if the license does not allow for copying, then re-writing it. Our |
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> users will do a lot of it, I'm sure). I'd wish to migrate a lot of |
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> things from the forums, after getting the authors permission if |
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> necessary. Maybe at some point I'd like the devmanual to be moved to |
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> the wiki (probably only editable by devs or a certain team, the |
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> specifics are not important right now). The quizzes can be put on the |
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> wiki. GLEP summaries in language users understand. Drafts for news |
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> items. The list goes on and on. |
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> Dror Levin |
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I'd like to ask what you think in launching a site that simply clones an |
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existing site is? Why take all the hard work the editors have put into |
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their articles on the unofficial wiki and duplicate them on another |
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site, creating TWO copies, both of which may be updated with different |
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information. |
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This is completely pointless. |
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And as someone who has contributed a lot to the existing wiki, I don't |
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care if it's official or not, but any site I find copying articles I've |
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contributed to (and certainly the ones I wrote from scratch) will suffer |
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all the wrath and abuse I can bring to it. |
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An official wiki should not be used to duplicate the existing unofficial |
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wiki (and I don't believe this is the intent of the developers who want |
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one). It should be used to provide additional documentation on top of |
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that provided by the existing wiki. |
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