Re: RubySpec link-up with RubyDoc
Charles Oliver Nutter <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:22:18 -0500
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Rich Morin wrote: > MW is a very well-developed and -supported piece of technology. > One problem with it, however, is that it is overwhelmingly aimed > at meeting the needs of Wikipedia. So, if a proposed change has > any chance of interfering with that (or even fails to be relevant > to that need), it has little chance of getting in. > > Also, there is (AFAIK) no good way to automagically load content > into MW. I played with PyWikipediaBot (in truth, several months > ago) and found that it is slow and cumbersome to use. If you're > thinking of loading pages with mechanically-generated text, it > might be worthwhile to find or hack up a replacement... I always have figured if we really need to make a move at some point, we can migrate the content out. Even though it's MW markup format, I'm sure there's a Ruby script out there somewhere to reformat it. For now, it's easy to use, and almost everyone's edited a MediaWiki wiki at some point... - Charlie