[WikiEN-l] How Wikipedia Works is online now

[AGK]

>
> Not yet! I would like to have one, of course. Producing one will mean
> taking the HTML and converting it to MediaWiki syntax -- the files for the
> printed book were laid out in a design program, so it was difficult enough
> just getting the HTML produced (which is why there was a delay for the
> online version). We did draft the book in MW, but there were significant
> changes between the draft and the finished version.


I would have thought the HTML would render fine on-wiki? It doesn't always
look pretty, but it usually works.

AGK


2008/10/2 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>

> Answers to questions:
>
> >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > http://howwikipediaworks.com/
>
> > Phoebe, Charles, Ben, you've done a fantastic job. I'm still fascinated
> by
> > the GFDL licensing aspect! Was it your aim from the start to make a
> > GFDL-compatible version?
>
> Yes, it was. We recognized that to comply with the letter *and* the
> spirit of the license when adapting help pages from Wikipedia, we
> needed to license the result under the GFDL; and we all wanted to
> produce a freely-licensed work regardless. The publisher, No Starch
> Press, was fantastic about being supportive of the license and
> accepting it, pretty much no questions asked. (And I learned a great
> deal about the GFDL in the process, including that despite our best
> efforts "how to reuse Wikipedia content properly" is still kind of a
> murky area. If any of the license-savvy contributors out there wanted
> to rewrite the onwiki help pages, it's an area that could use a *lot*
> of work).
>
> > Is there a wiki version?
>
> Not yet! I would like to have one, of course. Producing one will mean
> taking the HTML and converting it to MediaWiki syntax -- the files for
> the printed book were laid out in a design program, so it was
> difficult enough just getting the HTML produced (which is why there
> was a delay for the online version). We did draft the book in MW, but
> there were significant changes between the draft and the finished
> version.
> Contact me off-list if you're interested in helping out with producing
> a wiki version.
>
> best,
> -- Phoebe
>
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