Steve Bennett wrote:
I would love it if there was an email-to-wikipedia
interface, mainly
because my mobile phone gives me unlimited email for free (whereas web
browsing is ridicously expensive - go figure). There do appear to be a
lot of fairly significant hurdles though: authentication, parsing
email (stripping out signatures, demangling character conversions,
avoiding accidental changing of whitespace etc), and of course the
potential for significant lag between receive and update - is merging
really a safe option when the article may have been downloaded 6 hours
earlier?
Incidentally, is there by any chance a read-only email fetch mechanism
for Wikipedia?
Steve
If i had such free service, i'd set a server doing it for me :P
If it's a 'private' service, things gets easier:
-Authentication: Use a variable account name as password.
-Stripping out signatures: You use the same email ssystem -> Always the
same signature.
Is merging really a safe option when the article may have been
downloaded 6 hours earlier?
If it hasn't changed, yes ;)
If it's a poppular article, probably not. But merging could wait until i
sit in front of a proper computer.