Steve Bennett wrote:
I would love it if there was an email-to-wikipedia interface, mainly because my mobile phone gives me unlimited email for free (whereas web browsing is ridicously expensive - go figure). There do appear to be a lot of fairly significant hurdles though: authentication, parsing email (stripping out signatures, demangling character conversions, avoiding accidental changing of whitespace etc), and of course the potential for significant lag between receive and update - is merging really a safe option when the article may have been downloaded 6 hours earlier?
Incidentally, is there by any chance a read-only email fetch mechanism for Wikipedia?
Steve
If i had such free service, i'd set a server doing it for me :P If it's a 'private' service, things gets easier: -Authentication: Use a variable account name as password. -Stripping out signatures: You use the same email ssystem -> Always the same signature.
Is merging really a safe option when the article may have been downloaded 6 hours earlier? If it hasn't changed, yes ;) If it's a poppular article, probably not. But merging could wait until i sit in front of a proper computer.