Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 08/15/2011 06:29 PM, emijrp wrote: > The mankind is compiling all human knowledge in an encyclopedia, which is > hosted in faulty metal plates spinning thousand times per minute, managed by > faulty humans and located only in one or two locations in the world > (Florida, the land of hurricanes

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-15 Thread emijrp
2011/8/14 Krinkle > Hi all, > > 've read most of the previous mails so far. I'd like to clear some > confusion > (just in case). Please do correct me if I'm wrong and got caught > by the confusion myself: > > The thread is about one of the following: > * .. the ability to clone a MediaWiki instal

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-14 Thread David Gerard
On 14 August 2011 13:46, Krinkle wrote: > The thread is about one of the following: > * .. the ability to clone a MediaWiki install and upload it to your own domain > to continue making edits, writing articles etc. > * .. getting better dumps of Wikimedia wikis in particular (ie. Wikipedia) > * .