On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:16:37PM +0100, Axel Boldt wrote:
David brought up the idea of publishing some Wikipedia
documents as
part of the Linux Documentation Project. That reminded me of an old
idea: publish a snapshot of the Wikipedia as a downloadable set of
static HTML pages that people can use without a net connection, and
that could also be burned on CD. No wiki.cgi script needed. If someone
clicks on an edit link or RecentChanges, they are directed to the
corresponding life Wikipedia page.
No, let me be clear. I am going to distribute portions of Wikipedia
along with LDP documents. The wikipedia documents will be Wikipedia
documents, not part of the LDP. In fact, I am thinking about having a
live link directly to "edit this page" so all readers can edit the
documentation. Just bundling Wikipedia content into the LDP would be
somehow rude.
Imagine having a live dictionary about Linux at your disposal,
complete with HOWTOs. It's such a cool project.
By the way, it would be nice if the wikipedia tarballs
could be
updated, to encourage experimentation like this.
Yes yes, please. Although perhaps rsync would be more efficient for
those of us who will want periodic automated updates.
--
Dr. David C. Merrill
http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project david(a)lupercalia.net
Collection Editor & Coordinator
http://www.linuxdoc.org
Asked how small software companies could compete on products that Microsoft
wants to fold into Windows, [Microsoft COO Bob] Herbold told Bloomberg News
they could either fight a losing battle, sell out to Microsoft or a larger
company or 'not go into business to begin with.'
--Newsweek, March 1998