Re: Porting wiki pages from LLDXG wiki to W3C SW wiki

On 20 Oct 2011, at 17:51, Tom Baker wrote:

> If we were to feel it important to preserve the editorial history of the
> original wiki page [1], there may be more complicated methods of "exporting" a
> page with its entire version history and "importing" it into another wiki --

I believe that export and import is the way to go, to preserve version history.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps

-Jodi

> but someone would need to look into this.  The easier way is to create a new
> wiki Page B (e.g., [2]), "select all" the source of Page A [3], and paste that
> source into Page B...
> 
> Doing so creates a new page with a new version history.  Since this page is
> unsigned, Gordon (or Karen) should perhaps port the page themselves so that the
> History tab identifies one of them as an author of the first version of the new
> page.  Alternatively, we could simply add an introductory note describing the
> origins of the page (and pointing back to [3]!), in which Gordon and Karen could
> be given credit for their work.
> 
> Tom
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/index.php?title=Library_Data_Resources&action=history
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/LLD/Library_Data_Resources
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Library_Data_Resources
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:51:21PM +0100, Gordon Dunsire wrote:
>> +1 for the Library Date Resources page [2] to be ported to the community site; I
>> hope to assist in keeping it up to date.
>>  
>> Cheers
>>  
>> Gordon
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 20 October 2011 at 16:34 Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> We're approaching the time we'll officially close our group!
>>> 
>>> This means, among others, that the LLD XG group wiki [1] will be frozen. This
>>> is the best option if we want to preserve as such (and for a long time!) the
>>> pages we're citing in our reports -- e.g., the pages for the individual cases
>>> and the cluster that are cited in the Use Case report.
>>> 
>>> However, such a freeze will be global. No page will be editable anymore, which
>>> can raise problems if some of us have put efforts on pages and would like to
>>> continue doing so to remain "alive". We can think of the reference page on
>>> Library Data Resources [2], but there might be others.
>>> 
>>> The solution is to port these pages to the LLD "community site" wiki, which we
>>> had created on the W3C Semantic Web wiki [3] and that won't be frozen.  But we
>>> should do this before the XG wiki is frozen: after, we won't have access to
>>> the wiki source. And we need to add a link from the LLD XG pages to the
>>> "equivalent" pages on the community wiki, so that potential readers can access
>>> the latest version.
>>> 
>>> So we'd like anyone who think we should be porting pages, to voice it now on
>>> the list! And maybe volunteer to do so.
>>> 
>>> The complete list of pages of the LLD XG wiki is at
>>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Special:AllPages
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Antoine, on behalf of Emmanuelle and Tom
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/
>>> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Library_Data_Resources
>>> [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/LLD
>>> 
> 
> -- 
> Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
>