(Apologies if this is a FAQ, but brief googling found nothing.)
Can one edit a "true MediaWiki" (MW) in a manner similar to how one
interacts with a GitHub wiki (GHW, aka gollum)
https://github.com/blog/699-making-github-more-open-git-backed-wikis
? Why I ask:
As part of an attempt to do more "open science" (more on that
separately), I'm starting to use GHW instead of my group's MW. This is
not as easy as I would like, and has one major problem: the github wiki
engine (gollum) merely "supports" MW wikitext. I.e., there are bugs
(things that work in "real" MW, but fail on GHW), and GHW's rendering
is generally butt-ugly compared to MW.
OTOH, editing a GHW is a joy. A GHW is backed by a git repo, so I can
interact with it "VC-style":
# whack away @ local files with my local editor
# commit to my local repo
# push to remote on github
# refresh my browser
and see the changes. (One can also run a local gollum and test locally
before pushing "to the world," but I am too lazy for that.)
I'd much love to have "the best of both worlds," i.e., a "real
MW"
with correct/pretty wikitext rendering, but with which I can interact
in VC-style (and preferably with git). Can that be done? I.e., can MW
be configured to do this, or is anyone working on a version that
supports this interaction style?
TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche(a)pobox.com>