[Foundation-l] [EWW] Edit Wikipedia Week

[Oldak Quill]

Well, thanks for clearing this up for me. I should have done a bit
more research before asking questions. It's a great initiative.

On 21/11/2007, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> The editing happens right on Wikipedia. Before I import it, before I freeze
> it, I fix it on Wikipedia. Once it's pulled to Veropedia, it's a static copy
> of some specific revision ID, at the time, the same page as the live page on
> enwiki. Once it's imported, there's no more improvement (unless we pull a
> *new* enwiki version, in which case the edits are already there). There's no
> reason to feed content back to enwiki, as the content *came* from enwiki to
> begin with and was never changed after that.
>
> Chad H.
>
> On Nov 21, 2007 9:30 AM, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 20/11/2007, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Brian: before you continue talking, and noting that I still don't see
> > > you in #veropedia
> > >
> > > Veropedia gets it's articles by parsing a Wikipedia article,
> > > generating a list of improvements (404s, disambigs, malformed
> > > templates, bad templates, readability indices etc.) and then the
> > > veropedian IMPROVES THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE until it passes the
> > > veropedia test, at which point it is uploaded.
> >
> > If a Wikipedia article is handled like this and fixed up quickly, why
> > can't the improvements be fed back to Wikipedia instantly? Obviously,
> > if this process takes 2 weeks to complete, the original Wikipedia
> > article will have changed too much to paste the fixed-up version
> > over...
> >
> > Veropedia is a great example of how free content can be reused and
> > improved by more specialised projects, but how much does Veropedia
> > feed content back to Wikipedia?
> >
> > --
> > Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)
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