On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Brianna Laugher<brianna.laug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Re GLAM repositories as a MediaWiki repo, I don't know enough on the > tech side to know if it is even a remotely feasible idea. But on the > 'social' side it did make me think about our insistence (currently > technically necessary) that everything is in MediaWiki format, > essentially under the Wikimedia branding somewhere, before we will > effectively work with it. We want the GLAMs to let up some control, > but essentially so material can come under our control. A different > kind of control, certainly, but definitely control. Let's not kid > ourselves - not a neutral ground. Maybe it is not a bad idea for us to > think about how we can embrace collaboration or resource sharing that > might wear someone else's badging. > > cheers > Brianna > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: > http://modernthings.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
Just thinking aloud here, but as to methods for accessing the content: A) Extends FileRepo to work with their data, however they happen to give us access to it B) Provide something similar to Special:Import, that will go retrieve their data and import it to a format MediaWiki can handle Both are certainly feasible with the current code base; it's not going to require some massive re-write of anything. -Chad _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
