[WikiEN-l] BJAODN restored again

White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 15:33:52 UTC 2007


Don't you guys have ANYTHING better to do than waste time on the BJAODN?
    - White Cat

On 6/10/07, David Mestel <david.mestel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Cunctator wrote:
> >Of course, section 4 (Modifications) only applies to modified versions of
> >the Document. We interpret it that its conditions apply to the original
> >Document as well, but such requirements are not actually required by the
> >GFDL.
>
> Except that the Document is presumably modified by removing the history
> section.
>
> David
>
> On 08/06/07, Michael Snow <wikipedia at att.net> wrote:
> >
> > The Cunctator wrote:
> > > I would love it if those who profess to care about pure GFDL
> > > compliance would do something about restoring the lost edit histories
> > > in the 2001-2002 period of a large number of entries.
> > I'd be very interested in such a project, though I'm not sure that my
> > technical skills would be much help. If it was possible to import
> > histories it wouldn't be that hard to do a history merge, although
> > really the whole thing would make the most sense done by scripts.
> >
> > What kind of entries are you referring to here? Just glancing about for
> > an example, I discovered that the history for [[Computer science]] on
> > the English Wikipedia begins with the last edit shown for it on the
> > nostalgia.wikipedia site, so obviously that's one type. Are there other
> > sources to pull missing history from, or is this what you had in mind?
> >
> > --Michael Snow
> >
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