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Tools to convert Wikipedia dumps into Git repositories.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2010-12-24 · latest 2012-07-29

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  1. somehow reminds me of https://github.com/scy/levitation but that doesnt seem to have gone anywhere...
    comment by trin_ · 2012-07-29 · in Gitit is a wiki backed by a git, darcs, or mercurial filestore.
  2. …For example, there once was a project to store Wikipedia articles using git as a backend: < https://github.com/scy/levitation> .
    comment by a3_nm · 2011-11-19 · in Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia
  3. …exist. A search turned up http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation and the code is at https://github.com/scy/levitation
    comment by thwarted · 2011-06-06 · in The Wikipedia war over Paul Revere
  4. …tool for converting the dumps to Git repos, which may or may not be a suitable base to build upon: https://github.com/scy/levitation
    comment by binbasti · 2010-12-24 · in Who Writes Wikipedia?