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::Right. The [[GetWiki]] way is the correct way: direct to another web address and tranparently mirror the material as is, including all changes, until there is a need to fork just that one page. However there are ideological reasons and [[Wikimedia corruption]] reasons why you will not ever get the [[MediaWiki]] coders to do that. | ::Right. The [[GetWiki]] way is the correct way: direct to another web address and tranparently mirror the material as is, including all changes, until there is a need to fork just that one page. However there are ideological reasons and [[Wikimedia corruption]] reasons why you will not ever get the [[MediaWiki]] coders to do that. | ||
:::No. The right way is to recruit PHP coders to make an import feature that works for us. I know very little PHP, I can hardly read the SpecialImport.php that contains the code for the Import feature. | |||
*What we would need is a myriad of wikis with radiobuttons to choose from which wiki to import and do it live, not manually saving and uploading the file. | *What we would need is a myriad of wikis with radiobuttons to choose from which wiki to import and do it live, not manually saving and uploading the file. | ||