Wikipedia research and/vs wiki research (was: Re: [wiki-research] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia Research, Quantitative Analysis, General User Survey and more

[Gordon Joly]

At 11:31 +0200 11/8/06, Dirk Riehle wrote:
>>I joined this list so that I could look at "non Wikipedia wiki research"!!
>
>I sincerely hope that wiki research will not be defined as "all 
>research not being Wikipedia" :-))
>=
>Dirk
>
>____


Of course not. But I do find confusion (in my mind or elsewhere). I 
have been running Mediawiki installations for a year or two, and when 
I ask questions sometimes all people can assume is "Wikipedia" 
contexts.

I was also very confused about the mailing lists, listed here:

http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo

As an example of "Wikipedia centric thought", I started a wiki and 
somebody wanted interwiki "short cuts" to the Nederlands (Dutch) 
Wikipedia, which I duly added. In fact, I added list of about 20.

  <nowiki>[[:de:q:Hauptseite]]</nowiki> [[:de:q:Hauptseite]]
  <nowiki>[[:en:n:Main page]]</nowiki>  [[:en:n:Main page]]
  <nowiki>[[:nl:Main page]]</nowiki>   [[nl:Main page]]


So, in SQL....


REPLACE INTO /*$wgDBprefix*/interwiki (iw_prefix,iw_url,iw_local) VALUES
('abbenormal','http://www.ourpla.net/cgi-bin/pikie.cgi?$1',0),
('acadwiki','http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/autocad/wiki/$1',0),

[...]

('wikiworld','http://WikiWorld.com/wiki/index.php/$1',0),
('wiktionary','http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/$1',1),
('wlug','http://www.wlug.org.nz/$1',0),
('wlwiki','http://winslowslair.supremepixels.net/wiki/index.php/$1',0),
('ypsieyeball','http://sknkwrks.dyndns.org:1957/writewiki/wiki.pl?$1',0),
('zwiki','http://www.zwiki.org/$1',0),
('zzz wiki','http://wiki.zzz.ee/',0),
('wikt','http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/$1',1),
('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('aa','http://aa.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('ab','http://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('af','http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('am','http://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('ar','http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('as','http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('ay','http://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('az','http://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('ba','http://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('be','http://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('bh','http://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('bi','http://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('bn','http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),

[...]


etc

Now this is OK, but the Mediawiki installation in question had 
nothing at all to with Wikipedia!

It is http://www.wethemedia.info/


Gordo


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