SeattleWiki talk:Relationship with Wikipedia
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Dan originally wrote, in the SeattleWiki:Coffee shop:
- I'm a heavy user over at a little wiki we call Wikipedia ;) At a recent Seattle-area meetup of Wikipedia, one of the things we talked about was setting up a mutually benificial relationship between SeattleWiki and Wikipedia. Many of the people who are drawn to one wiki or the other would enjoy using both. There are many topics that are vitally important for SeattleWiki: neighborhood newspapers, elementary schools, et cetera, that would be tolerated at best, deleted at worst, on Wikipedia. I'd like to set up a page where we can talk about how this works. A few ideas: for the more detailed topics, if a page shows up on Wikipedia, we transwiki it here. For the general topics, we keep sister pages and bounce content back-and-forth. I'm sure there's more to it than that. What do you think?
I agree that there's a bunch of stuff that certainly belongs on SeattleWiki and may or may not belong in Wikipedia, like Dan mentions: elementary/junior/high schools, small organizations, etc.
Even in the case when there's overlap, Wikipedia tends to go for "encyclopedic"-type more-or-less static content, whereas SeattleWiki can have more up-to-date content that is also maybe only really relevant to people in Seattle. For example, compare Wikipedia's article on Wallingford with SeattleWiki's entry.
In terms of transwiki'ing, maybe we can see if Wikipedia will allow us to do interwiki links to SeattleWiki. This would even enable us to automatically redirect via REDIRECT page directives, but I don't know if that would go very well with Wikipedians. Thoughts?
- --matias 12:22, 17 Jan 2005 (PST)
Wikipedians generally prefer external links to interwiki REDIRECTS, because they fear that people will get lost and won't be able to find their way back. Even interwiki REDIRECTS between wikimedia projects are either disabled or discouraged. But sister page links would definitelty be encouraged if SeattleWiki offered more in-depth information. DanKeshet 14:43, 17 Jan 2005 (PST)
[edit] Wikipedia content
It occurs to me that, as long as this is under a Creative Commons license, superior as it may be, we can not import Wikipedia content. Another wiki I'm helping to start decided, for this unfortunate reason, to go GFDL. I'm not going to advocate going with GFDL, but it's something to keep in mind before people start uploading Wikipedia content here to modify. (Of course, many of the people who wrote content for Seattle-related topics will be willing to dual-license.) DanKeshet 11:28, 26 Jan 2005 (PST)
