[Wikipedia-l] wiki source cvs

[Jimmy Wales]

The software is GPL, and if you use it, you could make the data be any
license you want.  I'm happy to volunteer to host it, but I guess you
guys have plenty of resources in that department already.

I think that your using wikipedia software (the new version) would be good
for everyone.

David Merrill wrote:

> The LDP is talking about whether to set up our own Wiki project for
> working on HOWTOs. There seems to be quite a bit of interest. I don't
> know what will come of it yet. I asked whether they're interested in
> using Wikipedia, but I suspect we need real-time updates and stuff
> like that, so it wouldn't work very well. Let me know how you feel
> about this though. We're still discussing it ourselves.
> 
> If we were to do that, we would need the licensing situation finally
> established in concrete terms, as well as attribution requirements.
> Any really big attribution would be an annoyance, but we'd want to
> make sure Wikipedia got a mention in all HOWTOs worked on that way.
> The big table would be overkill imho.
> 
> But if we do, I would like to use the Wikipedia software. We want to
> use the current editing capabilities to output DocBook format, as in:
> 
> =Title=
> 
> Foo
> 
> Bar
> 
> becomes:
> 
> <sect1><title>Title</title>
> 
> <para>Foo</para>
> 
> <para>Bar</para>
> 
> </sect1>
> 
> and so on. How is the software licensed, and can I get access to the
> cvs? I don't think I'll need commit rights. I'll fix any bugs I run
> into and send a patch if that happens.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> David C. Merrill                         http://www.lupercalia.net
> Linux Documentation Project                   david at lupercalia.net
> Collection Editor & Coordinator            http://www.linuxdoc.org
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