[Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

[Chad]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Brianna
Laugher<brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Re GLAM repositories as a MediaWiki repo, I don't know enough on the
> tech side to know if it is even a remotely feasible idea. But on the
> 'social' side it did make me think about our insistence (currently
> technically necessary) that everything is in MediaWiki format,
> essentially under the Wikimedia branding somewhere, before we will
> effectively work with it. We want the GLAMs to let up some control,
> but essentially so material can come under our control. A different
> kind of control, certainly, but definitely control. Let's not kid
> ourselves - not a neutral ground. Maybe it is not a bad idea for us to
> think about how we can embrace collaboration or resource sharing that
> might wear someone else's badging.
>
> cheers
> Brianna
>
> --
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Just thinking aloud here, but as to methods for accessing the content:

A) Extends FileRepo to work with their data, however they happen to give
us access to it
B) Provide something similar to Special:Import, that will go retrieve their
data and import it to a format MediaWiki can handle

Both are certainly feasible with the current code base; it's not going to
require some massive re-write of anything.

-Chad