[wp-docs] codex git repo ???

[Mika A Epstein]

Offline viewing of the codex: http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-docs/2011-May/002548.html

Not a GIT question per say but a MediaWiki one.

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Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu)
http://ipstenu.org

On 11 Sep 2011, at 9:22:44AM, BUGHUNTER wrote:

> Hi Lorelle, 
> 
> thank you very much for your attention - however, it would be really
> great to receive answers to my questions.
> 
> I searched the archives using google but found only 3 entries for git
> without any relevance for my questions.
> 
> So I assume the answer to my first question
> 
>> is there a codex git repo for offline processing / viewing?
> 
> would be NO - is this right? 
> 
> Note: you can answer with a positive sounding YES on this ;)
> 
> My second question was: 
> 
>> would you be interested in this?
> 
> If you are not interested in a codex git repo I surely will
> immediately stop investigating into this and spend my time with
> something that actually finds some positive resonance - I was
> intending to improve the wordpress codex experience.
> 
> Of course I found the "Dump of the Codex?" thread - this interesting
> discussion ends with your important observation:
> 
>> The problem is that the Codex is a living document and changes
>> daily, so these tend to go out of date fast.
> 
> Unfortunately the discussion stops there - much too early, many
> options have not been mentioned - you definitely are right with your
> observation, but there are several other ways of mirroring or dumping
> the codex database to a git repo.
> 
> The most efficient solutions will only work with direct access to the
> codex mediawiki database, so your interest in offering a solution will
> be the first requirement - if you do not want it, we do not need to
> discuss better ways to mirror the codex.
> 
> If you like the idea and would like to support it, why not discuss it?
> 
> 
> BTW there is a problem with access to the mailing list interface and
> also to the archives - if I copy the link
> 
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs
> 
> and paste it into the browser address bar I get a 403 "forbidden".
> 
> however, accessing it from
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo DOES work - strange - I
> did not look deeper into this as it seems to be some kind of webserver
> misconfig...
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> Bughunter
> 
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