On 26/08/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
That was Ward Cunningham's ;-) (Did his do version control?)
Heck, even ours doesn't properly do version control. You can't branch, tag, ... Hrm. Anyone want to re-implement MediaWiki with a /real/ version control back end?
You do. Use git - the key insight for git is that the working unit is the project, not the file; so with Wikipedia, the key insight is that the working unit is the project, not the article. So blame-per-phrase can be preserved wherever a sentence wanders in the wiki! And just imagine the author list for a particular article *that* will give us ...
- d.