Here an interesting alternative implementation for MediaWiki/Wikipedia:
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http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/06/itching-my-programming-nerv…
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6981137233069932108 (Wikipedia
discussion starts 30min into the video)
Basically a p2p backend that claims order of magnitude performance gains
for writing pages. They ignore the front caches etc. Done in Erlang (+Java).
I was trying to figure out whether this would really be feature parity
but couldn't fully see it.
For the rendering, they use plog4u---does someone know whether this has
feature parity with Mediawiki (markup)? We used JAMWiki (Java
implementation of MediaWiki) only to see later that there was no
ParserFunctions extension available. (Why is this an extension rather
than a core part in the first place?)
Thanks!
Dirk
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