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
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