Wikipedia

I needed to convert a huge batch of mediawiki-files to html (had a 2010-03 copy of the now dead limewire wiki lying around). With a tip from RoanKattouw in #mediawiki@freenode.net I created a simple python script to convert arbitrary files from mediawiki syntax to html.

Usage:

• Download the script and install the dependencies (yaml and python 3).
• ./parse_wikipedia_files_to_html.py <files>

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Wikipedia, Notability, and Open Source Software by ubunTARD.

2010-03-23
Update: I just got unblocked by henrik who also sent me an excuse for the way the whole process was handled: “…The block was partly an individual misjudgment, but also a result of the systemic culture and some poorly thought out policies. If you're interested, I'd be happy to discuss it in more detail…”. And that restores a lot of my faith in the wikipedia community — thank you very much for your excuse, henrik!
Also they are currently discussing on the incidents board how to avoid similarly overboarding blocking like that in the future.

Just as an inside notice from the discussion: I joined the first deletion discussion when I got note of it (I don't know anymore through which channel) and when it got closed, I joined the second one and got heavily frustrated when people tried to turn “he sent the developers a berliner bratwurst” into “the magazine which published his article is a first source” (which would mean it wouldn't count as source for “notability”).

zu Streit um Wikipedia-Bilder in Heise.de (Diskussion):

Ich habe mir Unterschiede zwischen den freien Lizenzen immer wieder angesehen, und v.a. zwei Dinge unterscheiden CC Lizenzen von anderen:

1: Sie haben schöne Bilder und Kurztexte (was klasse ist).

2: Sie sorgen nicht dafür, dass die Quelldateien weitergegeben werden (was wirklich Mist ist).