Etherpad
- This page is mainly about Wikimedia's Etherpad installation. For information about the software in general, see the Wikipedia article w:Etherpad.
The Wikimedia-installed Etherpad is the Wikimedia-hosted instance of the online collaborative text editor of that name. The Wikimedia community uses it to document Wikimedia activities such as shared notes in meetings and conference discussions.
Guide
Anyone may create documents for collaborative editing through the etherpad landing page
Etherpad files are not suitable for any long-term storage. The etherpad does not require accounts to create or contribute to documents, and there is no connection between the etherpad and anyone's Wikimedia user account. After using an etherpad, anyone is encouraged to move the content of the etherpad to a wikipage or elsewhere.
In the unusual circumstance that content in an etherpad should be deleted immediately, the person requesting deletion should file a security task on Phabricator.
Copyright
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It is Wikimedia community custom to use free and open copyright licenses for the media it produces. Conventionally, the software which the Wikimedia community uses clearly states the license which it requires in its terms of use.
History
- In November 2013 a tech update announced that the old Etherpad was replaced by a new installation of etherpad-lite in 2013. Old pads were archived to etherpad-old.wikimedia.org, which was removed on Monday, 30 December 2013.
See also
- wikitech:etherpad.wikimedia.org (information for server admins)
- phab:tag/wikimedia-etherpad/ project on Phabricator
- mw:Etherpad Lite
- Small Python script to convert Etherpads into wiki pages
- D'Angelo, Gabriele; Iorio, Angelo Di; Zacchiroli, Stefano (2018-11-03). "Spacetime Characterization of Real-Time Collaborative Editing". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 2. ("We [...] studied the full editing histories of about 14 000 textual documents (or pads, in EtherPad terminology) from http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/, which is one of the most popular public instances of Etherpad, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.")