On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 12:44:05PM -0500, Dan Carlson wrote:
The main problem from my perspective is documentation for users of the wiki software in sites which are not straight-up mirrors of Wikipedia. We've been doing a rather haphazard job of copying over the various bits of documentation for using the site -- stuff like how to write an article, how to edit a page, the policies and guidelines, and other material.
Our problem is that so many of these pages will definitely be useful, and although they'll most likely be adapted and changed as time goes on and we set up our own policies, I think it would still be useful if we could have something that we could start with.
I think packing all the help-pages into an extra database dump should be enough. My first suggestion is having an index/list of all the help-pages somewhere (MediaWiki: most likely) and make an extra dump out of them. That way we can offer them parallel to the regular full-dumps
A second solution could use the XML-Export at Wikipedia to grab the help pages and import them into the new installation. As long as no XML-Import exists, pywikipediabot can do the job.
ciao, tom