On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 06:11:43PM -0600, Jimmy Wales wrote:
The software is GPL, and if you use it, you could make
the data be any
license you want. I'm happy to volunteer to host it, but I guess you
guys have plenty of resources in that department already.
I think that your using wikipedia software (the new version) would be good
for everyone.
Thanks very much.
If we do in fact go with Wiki (and we're not sure of that) rather than
a simpler "edit this page" we roll ourselves, we will be adding to it
the ability to convert the tags into DocBook. So:
*item
*item
*item
becomes
<simplelist>
<listitem>item</listitem>
<listitem>item</listitem>
<listitem>item</listitem>
</simplelist>
and so on. Might be of use to you someday if you want to publish
something out of Wikipedia in DocBook XML format. Just keep it in
mind.
I've already started such a script, 'cause we'll need it regardless.
David Merrill wrote:
The LDP is talking about whether to set up our
own Wiki project for
working on HOWTOs. There seems to be quite a bit of interest. I don't
know what will come of it yet. I asked whether they're interested in
using Wikipedia, but I suspect we need real-time updates and stuff
like that, so it wouldn't work very well. Let me know how you feel
about this though. We're still discussing it ourselves.
If we were to do that, we would need the licensing situation finally
established in concrete terms, as well as attribution requirements.
Any really big attribution would be an annoyance, but we'd want to
make sure Wikipedia got a mention in all HOWTOs worked on that way.
The big table would be overkill imho.
But if we do, I would like to use the Wikipedia software. We want to
use the current editing capabilities to output DocBook format, as in:
=Title=
Foo
Bar
becomes:
<sect1><title>Title</title>
<para>Foo</para>
<para>Bar</para>
</sect1>
and so on. How is the software licensed, and can I get access to the
cvs? I don't think I'll need commit rights. I'll fix any bugs I run
into and send a patch if that happens.
Thanks,
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