Wikinfo

Wikinfo, formerly known as Internet-Encyclopedia (renamed in January 2004), is a fork of Wikipedia initiated by Fred Bauder in July 2003. It is hosted by ibiblio. Wikinfo makes no attempt to be multilingual, although existing links to Wikipedia articles in other languages are retained in the case of articles copied from Wikipedia.

Importation and modification

Like Wikipedia, Wikinfo uses the GNU Free Documentation License for most of its text, which allows verbatim copying and modification as long as derivative works remain licensed under the same terms. Wikinfo also supports signed articles, which are not subject to substantial editing by others and can be released under a license other than the GNU FDL. http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Wikinfo:Signed_articles Wikinfo does not permit editing of its articles by anyone other than its registered users. As of September 2005, there is some activity on Wikinfo, with a handful of articles edited each day.

Related Topics:
GNU Free Documentation License - September 2005

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By September 2005 Wikinfo had over 33,000 articles, most of which have been copied from Wikipedia with minimal modification. The process of importing articles has been accelerated by using a fork of the MediaWiki software called GetWiki. Instead of red links, GetWiki uses green links to point to articles which do not exist locally. However as of September 2005 there is little activity on the site, with fewer than 20 editors active a week.

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MediaWiki - GetWiki - Red - Green

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When the user follows such a link, GetWiki tries to dynamically fetch it from a wiki designated as an external source (in Wikinfo's case, the English Wikipedia), renders and displays the article text. A local copy is created only if the page is edited. Effectively, Wikinfo therefore provides a transparent "wrapper" around Wikipedia pages which have not yet been copied.

Related Topics:
English - Transparent

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