GFDL corpus watch

Proposal

New software, perhaps a fork of GetWiki, could become the major monitoring and tracking interface to the GFDL text corpus as a whole. This was suggested as a major drive in GetWiki:2.0. This page is for discussion and debate of useful features - this might also relate to, or affect, the proposed default Recyclopedia:GFDL notice.

In theory, any service based on this software could track changes to any other wiki, even if they didn't use a standard wiki URI, as long as they did not try to actively obscure their URIs or require logins (as orkut does). It seems likely that a typical RecentChanges log could look something like this:

(diff) (hist) . . en:Wikipedia:trolls; 21:35 . . en:Wikipedia:SunirShah (Talk) (trolls are bad! very bad! and so is fire! fire bad!)

(diff) (hist) . . en:Consudev:trolls; 21:27 . . 24.45.99.191 (Talk) (trolls are really sick of being slandered on Wikipedia, and don't blame us 24 nesting range trolls for what 142 range trolls do - besides everyone is always lying about them)

(diff) (hist) . . N en:Wikipedia:User:RealProteus; 21:25 . . en:Wikipedia:RealProteus (Talk) (Hey! My account was hacked! But I think it's someone trying to frame the 142 trolls, not one of them really, they are good folks)

(diff) (hist) . . M en:Wikipedia:User_talk:Proteus; 21:25 . . en:Wikipedia:Proteus (Talk) (please do not modify my talk page to say things I did not say, you sysops, and by the way I'm not the Proteus from Wikinfo, I am a troll from the 142 nesting range, nyah nyah)

(diff) (hist) . . fr:Meta-Wikipedia:trolls; 21:25 . . fr:Meta-Wikipedia:JimboWales (Talk) ("I am the GodKing! I rule that "Trolls are bad" in all languages, even/especially those that I don't understand. Also that all administrative decisions in all languages must be discussed in English from now on! I must understand! I will understand! I am the GodKing! YEEaarraaggh!)

(diff) (hist) . .N fr:Wikipedia:trolls; 21:25 . . fr:Wikipedia:Anthere (Talk) ("trolls" c'est en francais aussi, pardon L'Academie!)

(diff) (hist) . .N en:Wikipedia:User_talk:Proteus; 21:23 . . en:Wikipedia:RickK (Talk) (is this a threat? Are you threatening me? You are threatening me!)

(diff) (hist) . .N en:Wikinfo:Standard_wiki_URI; 21:20 . . 142.177.0.1 (Talk) (unnecessary hindrance to users publishing URIs of wiki pages)

(diff) (hist) . . en:Wikinfo:User_talk:Proteus; 21:14 . . 142.177.92.162 (Talk) (standard wiki URIs)

(diff) (hist) . . en:Metaweb:Wikitext_standard; 21:12 . . en:Metaweb:DannyHillis (new massively parallel hardware I just designed to process the wikitext standard and turn it all into a massive semantic web, I was bored at lunch; tomorrow I will probably solve the Halting Problem)

Such a log, theoretically, would include all changes to the GFDL text corpus at large public wikis and others one specifically chose. If one wanted to see only changes in English, that's a GetWiki user preference. If one wanted to see only changes to certain large public wikis, ignore others, that too is a user preference setting. If one wanted to assign some fictional common identity to various user accounts or IP numbers, that too is a user preference. This might be very effective in tracking activity. Whether to edit the page that changed, or a parallel page, or a local or peer to peer shared one, is ideally also a user preference long-term.

This is really nothing but a merge of the GetWiki Special:RecentChanges and MediaWiki Special:RecentChanges and potentially other wiki code used for GFDL text corpus management, such as MoinMoin and UseMod code.