Re: Random question about es.wikipedia.org

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:59:26 -0800, Daniel Mayer wrote:

> Aburayama wrote:
>>It's a remerge and it's not a remerge :) At es:wikipedia they 
>>are using a bot to copy articles from Enciclopedia Libre to 
>>Wikipedia, since around 2 months ago (Wikipedia and EL 
>>redactors agreed at this). Time ago there was a ratio of 
>>2.000 articles Wikipedia / 10.000 articles EL, if I remember 
>>well, but now is 10.000/16.000. Some EL editors, also, take 
>>articles from Wikipedia manually sometimes, and maybe 
>>next month both enciclopedias will be very similar in size 
>>and contents. Anyway, at this moment there is no plans 
>>at EL to merge both projects: EL people will continue 
>>editing at Enciclopedia Libre and Wikipedia people will 
>>continue editing at Wikipedia.           
> 
> It seems like there is a lot of effort wasted on copying things back and forth 
> when all editing could be concentrated on one wiki. 
> 
> EL had these complaints over a year ago when I mounted a reunification effort:
> *Wikipedia was owned by a for-profit company (now fixed), 
> *the project was at a .com (now fixed) 
> *the English Wikipedia was at www and not en (now fixed), 
> *the English issues mailing list was at Wikipedia-l (now fixed), 
> *most non-English Wikipedias were on UseMod software (mostly fixed), 
> *the software on es.wikipedia was badly broken (now fixed), 
> *there is no international portal page (being worked on), and, of course, 
> *there was talk of having advertisements on Wikipedia (this will never happen 
> so long as enough donations keep coming into the foundation to pay the 
> bills).
> 
> Did I miss anything?
> 
> I think we have come a long way toward what they (and most of us too!) want. 
> 
>>And yes, we have some problems with phase 2 and we are now 
>>updating to the new software and also change to a new 
>>and faster server.   
> 
> Once your database is upgraded to the newest MediaWiki you can have a bot use 
> the page export utility to move pages from EL to es.wikipedia. We may even be 
> able to merge article histories. In that case whichever version was edited 
> last (EL or ES) would be the one displayed as the top edit of the article. 
> Humans would have to fix the resulting mess (as they are now at 
> it.wikipedia).
> 
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

Hello Brion & Mav,

You should update http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
article :)))

cheers,

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Ashar Voultoiz
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