On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Bruce Whealton
<bruce(a)futurewavedesigns.com> wrote:
1) Is it difficult to copy some of the content from
one wiki into a new
wiki that - that is to say copy some of the articles... an export of
articles and then an import elsewhere. I know MW lets one export and then
import, so could one export a whole collection of articles or category of
articles and then bring them into a new wiki?
Yes.
2) Would there be a way to export the Semantic data
as well? Forms,
annotations, etc?
To my knowledge, yes, as everything's kept inside articles.
3) Maybe some folks know more than I do about these
things, such as the
reasons one might want to self-host their wiki, in addition to using
wikia.com
Well, self-hosting definitely gives you more control over your
environment and the extensions you want, while going with us at Wikia
will give you less of that, but that also means less tech work for you
as everything magically works, *and* gets enhanced over time.
Neither solution is inherently better, I believe – depends on what
your needs and preferences are. But you can always give us a try. ;)
4) Similarly, would this create redundant or
conflicting data or is there a
way around that? I guess one issue is about how open the data on
wikia.com
is.
All wikis at Wikia are publicly editable and open to public view in whole.
As for data access, we publish weekly XML dumps of both the current
versions of the wiki's article and the their full history.
Oh, and you'll need to request SMW to be enabled once your wiki is
setup if you with Wikia, as it's not in the default extension set (not
everybody needs SMW, after all) – go to Special:Contact on your new
wiki and ask for SMW or, if you have problems, drop me a line.
Hope that helps. :)
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Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski
Wikia Tech Team