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The Cunctator

8 May 2007 8 May '07

6:37 p.m.

Heh. I do wonder what would happen. On 5/8/07, George Chriss <GChriss(a)psu.edu> wrote:

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Hi, Have the potential abuses been addressed? The first thing that comes to mind is: rm -Rf * Thanks, George On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:40:23 -0400 Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org></wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

Mathieu -- c'est super! http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/mount.wikipediafs.htm For the wikitechers, WikipediaFS virtually mounts the Wikipedia website so you can view and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files. This is really awesome. Is there any chance you could change the name of the project, though? Wikipedia is a trademark, and your project can do a lot more than hook into just Wikipedia. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Jim Wilson

8 May 8 May

7:54 p.m.

New subject: Coolness: Wikipedia as a Filesystem

I just tried "rm -rf *" at the Command Prompt and it just said "Bad command or filename" - so I think it'll be alright ;) -- Jim On 5/8/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Heh. I do wonder what would happen. On 5/8/07, George Chriss <GChriss(a)psu.edu> wrote:

Hi, Have the potential abuses been addressed? The first thing that comes to

mind

is: rm -Rf * Thanks, George On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:40:23 -0400 Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org></wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Mathieu -- c'est super! > > http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/mount.wikipediafs.htm > > For the wikitechers, WikipediaFS virtually mounts the Wikipedia

website so

> you can view and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files. > > This is really awesome. Is there any chance you could change the name

of the

> project, though? Wikipedia is a trademark, and your project can do a

lot

more than hook into just Wikipedia. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Jeff V. Merkey

8:08 p.m.

New subject: Coolness: Wikipedia as a Filesystem

Jim Wilson wrote: Interesting, but does not scale. Plan 9 has another spoof FD like this, though also primitive. This does not scale as a true WikipediaFS, but I know a true Wikipedia based File System that does ... :-) Jeff

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I just tried "rm -rf *" at the Command Prompt and it just said "Bad command or filename" - so I think it'll be alright ;) -- Jim On 5/8/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Heh. I do wonder what would happen. On 5/8/07, George Chriss <GChriss(a)psu.edu> wrote:

Hi, Have the potential abuses been addressed? The first thing that comes to

mind

is: rm -Rf * Thanks, George On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:40:23 -0400 Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org></wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: >Mathieu -- c'est super! > >http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/mount.wikipediafs.htm > >For the wikitechers, WikipediaFS virtually mounts the Wikipedia > >

website so

>you can view and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files. > >This is really awesome. Is there any chance you could change the name > >

of the

>project, though? Wikipedia is a trademark, and your project can do a > >

lot

more than hook into just Wikipedia. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

9:48 p.m.

New subject: Coolness: Wikipedia as a Filesystem

On 5/8/07, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:

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Why would this not scale? File system wrappers such as FUSE allow you to override read/write/readdir etc. Of course readdir() on /enwiki/ would be terribly slow but so would the equivalent operation on Special:Allpages, there's no reason why read/write operations wouldn't scale however.

The Cunctator

11 May 11 May

11:19 p.m.

New subject: Coolness: Wikipedia as a Filesystem

Please tell me you're joking. On 5/8/07, Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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I just tried "rm -rf *" at the Command Prompt and it just said "Bad command or filename" - so I think it'll be alright ;) -- Jim On 5/8/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Heh. I do wonder what would happen. On 5/8/07, George Chriss <GChriss(a)psu.edu> wrote:

Hi, Have the potential abuses been addressed? The first thing that comes to

mind

website so

> you can view and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files. > > This is really awesome. Is there any chance you could change the name

of the

> project, though? Wikipedia is a trademark, and your project can do a

lot

more than hook into just Wikipedia. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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