• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    51·
    3 months ago

    Anyone know:

    How to rip a wiki from something like fandom and save it in a format that could be uploaded to this and

    If that’s legal in the first place?

    • Cochise@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      It’s legal if credit is given and it’s shared under CC-BY-SA.

      https://www.fandom.com/licensing

      Except where otherwise permitted, the text on Fandom communities (known as “wikis”) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC BY-SA).

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      You can get the raw article text from fandom by clicking the edit button. Then you need to convert it from wikitext to markdown, there are various tools for that. Finally post it on Ibis. Fandom also has an API, so you could write a script to automate all this.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago
      1. Paste each article’s raw source to ChatGPT, ask it to do it for you. If there are too many, you can automate it through the API for a negligible cost.
      2. Is it not.
      • ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Maybe also wget the website.

        I’d be careful with using “ai.” Sometimes ChatGPT makes up answers even when you provide it with the data. -source it lies to me all the time

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Converting from one format to another, it can do like gangbusters. I wouldn’t trust it to summarize stuff from its training data, it can do a little bit better with summarizing stuff you give it, but just mechanically finding the text and putting it verbatim into a different markup it’s pretty capable with.

          • ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Even reformatting has caused me issues. My best example is I gave it 100 citations in a non standardized format and asked for MLA. It returned 100 in MLA but randomly 10 of the books were made up. It decided to delete ten I sent at random and make them up instead of just giving me what I sent

            • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Oh… yeah, you might have a point. Beyond a certain size of repeated things, it sometimes goes haywire, I’ve seen that.