[Mediawiki-l] Starting a new Wikipedia-based N-pedia

Plamen Gradinarov plamen at orientalia.org
Mon Dec 20 16:18:12 UTC 2004


Dear All,

While contributing this article to Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samapatti
I found that there are too much specific terms marked as open entries, 
without which a Wikipedia topic would not be quite comprehensible, while 
adding them to the Wikipedia would violate the non-dictionary rule. On 
the other hand, the terms are not fit for the general Wiktionary. The 
only way out seems to be a new open encyclopedia project, let's call it 
Indopedia, which should combine the characteristics of both encyclopedia 
and technical dictionary, plus the specific features of a standard 
Indian kosha (containing excerpts from original texts).

Starting the Indopedia from the scratch would be the best approach as 
far as methodology and representation are concerned, but we will lose 
the rich Indological content provided so far by the Wikipedia authors.

My question is:
Is there a way to extract all Indology-related articles from the current 
table and use them as the content-basis for all future editing and 
writing activities of our editors, provided this does not contradict the 
GPL license.

Best regards,
Plamen Gradinarov
Ph.D., D.Sc., Assoc. Prof.
Eurasia Academic Publishers




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