User:Emilio/Porting

Porting is the term we use on Appropedia to describe the adaptation of knowledge from different sources into our in-house format, which

This guide will describe what can be ported, how to port

What can be ported

It aligns with Appropedia's mission
Open licensed
It can be adapted
- May use multiple formats such as video
- Originally localized
- Can be old

Licensing
- What we accept
- Grey area
- Not accepted
- Releasing
Subject matter
- What we want on Appropedia
- What we don't want on Appropedia
  - Personal information
  - Low-quality images
  - Anything that breaks our Appropedia:Terms of use
How to assess feasibility
Preparing sources
- PDF
  - OCR
  - How to process
- TXT
- HTML
Metadata
- Predefining a structure
- Normalizing to our properties
- Preserving as much as possible
- Extracting metadata
  - Manual review
  - Using an LLM
  - Other ways (keyword matching, fuzzy matching, etc.)
Methods
- Manual editing
  - Worth the effort if small dataset
- Batch importing
  - Editing txt files and using a maintenance script
  - Building wikitext from a spreadsheet
  - Using the MediaWiki API
Good practices
- File structure: we prefer a single portal with projects as subpages
- Naming: we strive to follow our Appropedia:Page naming recommendations
- Batch editing: reviewing the external source of truth (e.g. a spreadsheet) to reduce multiple changes and revisions.

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