Realized I never sent an announcement here. I think you folks'd be
really interested in checking out what we've been working on:
http://localwiki.org
We just did our first general-public software release.
There's lots of cool stuff going on. Having worked on the DavisWiki
(
http://daviswiki.org) code for many, many years [which was a fork of
MoinMoin], we really relished the opportunity to design a new, modern
wiki engine without the burden of legacy support.
Cool bits:
* Everything is stored as HTML5. We threw out wiki markup.
* Visual editing! And it's consistent and fun!
* .. Using a highly-hacked ckeditor. We're hoping to work on
the new visualeditor ya'll have been working on. Exciting!
* The basis of our work was creating a flexible versioning, diffing
and merging framework for Django, called django-versionutils. With
this, we can easily version any Django model, diff any Django fields,
and create new, custom diff handlers (for, say, GeometryFields or
ImageFields :) This allows us to wiki-fy any sort of structured data,
too.
* this lets us make things like versioned, diffable comments
a'la liquidthreads really easily.
* Really cool map stuff / really-easy map editing :)
I made this code walkthrough screencast a few months back which you
might find interesting:
http://vimeo.com/25385510 (though it's a bit
long -- sorry!)
& we've got a dev site here:
https://dev.localwiki.org
Anyway, would love to work together on anything and everything we can!
(WMF folks: we're in SF, too)
-Philip
(Apologies if you're seeing this email twice. My first send was
apparently silently rejected)