Hey,
I'm working for a group of researchers at the University of Cologne and we've created a book over the past year that we'd like to share on wikibooks. It already is on a mediawiki installation ( openbook.oerlabs.de ) and I have a few questions regarding licensing and migration.
Since the book already uses a mediawiki I was hoping I could make use of the import/export feature, but I need a little advise on how to do it (since I assume I won't have the necessary rights on wikibooks to do it myself).
Furthermore we'd like to publish the text under Creative Commons Zero, some of the pictures use different licenses however (CC-BY-SA, CC-BY), is that okay?
I hope I'm at the right address here, if not kindly tell me where to try my luck next.
Sincerly, Felix Husemann
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Felix Husemann, 06/05/19 12:56:
Since the book already uses a mediawiki I was hoping I could make use of the import/export feature, but I need a little advise on how to do it
It's possible to export an XML and then import it on the other side, but you probably have to manually change some things such as the page titles and the internal links. I see the syntax used in those pages is simple enough so there shouldn't be big problems from that.
(since I assume I won't have the necessary rights on wikibooks to do it myself).
Indeed, the importer right is handed out rarely: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Importer. Once you prepare the XML, you should ask a local administrator to (ask the rights and) import it for you.
Alternatively, if you have some familiarity with Python and the original website with its revision history is expected to live on, you could just copy the most recent version of each page by transforming the XML into something pagefromfile.py can handle: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/pagefromfile.py
Furthermore we'd like to publish the text under Creative Commons Zero, some of the pictures use different licenses however (CC-BY-SA, CC-BY), is that okay?
Images need to be freely licensed, they don't need to have the same license as the text. These will need to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with all the information usually required such as author, source and license. Upload tools are available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools
Federico
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