ais523 wrote:
> I'm worried that the Notary wiki actually makes it real-world legally
> impossible for me to do my job as Notary.
>
> The Wikidot terms of service prevent any form of automatic scraping that
> isn't specifically permitted by Wikidot themselves:
> {{{
> 6. any automated use of the Services that is not officially available;
> this includes reading, posting or changing any Content, sending Messages
> and any other such use; this does not include RSS feeds access
> }}}
> (under "Other prohibited usage include:").
>
> The only ways, therefore, to get a mass dump of all the public contracts
> in Agora (a required job of the Notary) are to either copy them all by
> hand (ridiculously time-consuming given Wikidot's interface), or to work
> from an automated system that wikidot does allow. It seems to have some
> sort of backup-to-text capability that might give us the scraping that
> we need, but I can't access it and therefore can't do my job as Notary.
> (This may be a useful way to move content off wikidot to some other
> system, if we decide to change.)
>
> I strongly suggest that we move to a contract-maintenance system that
> does not make it legally impossible for the Notary to do their job. Any
> ideas?
Until/unless something better comes along:
http://agora-notary.wikidot.com/text-of-each-contract
You'll have to add new contracts to it manually, though.
