GeneWiki:Mirroring

Mirroring on GeneWiki+
GeneWiki+ is primarily a mirror of the Gene Wiki project on Wikipedia. To that end, we use a one-way synchronization service to keep our articles up-to-date, as well as making on-the-fly modifications like conversion of templates to semantic::mediawiki links. This means that users can modify articles (if they have an account), but any modifications performed on GeneWiki+ will be overwritten if the original article is changed on Wikipedia. Pages that are not mirrored on Wikipedia, like user pages and pages created on GeneWiki+, are generally not overwritten.

In the future, we expect to have a better way to modify the GeneWiki+ that survives synchronization but allows us to keep the articles up-to-date. When that becomes available, we will post details at this page.