But is there automatic XML-import and hopefully diff facilities for importing from internet-encyclopedia or wikipedia or any number and choice of GetWiki or MediaWiki running wikis?
- This is a good reason to support a m: = "multiple", and n: = "neutral" and f: = "factional" name space. We select the best of each behind the scenes, rather than hardwiring assumptions about that into the article itself. Why not? We already point to w: articles which are ever-changing... so why not ever-changing redirects?
- I'm not understanding what you are getting at with these namespaces. Please elaborate.
- See interwiki link standard first. When that works, we will want some abbreviations. If I think Wikinfo has the best multiple point of view in English then m: should go to en:Wikinfo:, but if Wikipedia has the only article in French then m: should go to fr:Wikipedia:, etc.. We need a way to make faction-specific (maybe even individualized) interwiki links. Note this only works if article titles are identical or there is very disciplined use of redirects for all possible titles (which is best anyway).
- We should copy and rewrite the articles we refer to in the Meta-Wikipedia space, as these are not in general relevant to Consumerium or even to mediawiki. Rewrites could help get some concepts clearer, and link them to the issues here.
We certainly need to get GetWiki to run a test-wiki to see how it is different and maybe use Wikinfo or use Wikipedia as a user preference.
- A good first step - the user could set where w: points for their purposes. Why not ask the GetWiki developers for this kind of feature? I'm sure they'll see the need for it. There should be arbitrary code possible to figure out where m:, w:, f:, n: go. Maybe there already is?
- Hmm... no point asking M.R.M._Parrott anything. Better to find people of a rational and troll-friendly/progressive bent to do yet another fork that Consumerium can share with Recyclopedia. There is really no point in trying to collaborate with one's ideological opposites on software projects. Mr. Parrott is a Kantian Platonist, and he further seems to be a narcissist, if one is to practice the same psychiatry on him that he applies to others. Not a reliable partner for anything. Trolls are done with him. He has seriously failed the test.