I've used wikis before, but I'm new to trying to set one up. I have a somewhat conceptual question.
I understand that wikis deal with articles and diffs to those articles. Can MediaWiki (or any other wiki system) deal with groups of related diffs that get applied to multiple articles all at once? This would be similar to changesets in BitKeeper or subversion repositories.
Thanks for your help.
-- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.org]
E-mail [jjk3@msstate.edu]
On 31/05/05, Joel Konkle-Parker jjk3@msstate.edu wrote:
I understand that wikis deal with articles and diffs to those articles. Can MediaWiki (or any other wiki system) deal with groups of related diffs that get applied to multiple articles all at once? This would be similar to changesets in BitKeeper or subversion repositories.
MediaWiki? No. Other wikis? Who knows, someone might be crazy enough to implement it, but it's not a "standardly wiki" thing to want to do, if that makes any sense. The principle interface of a ("normal"/"traditional") wiki is a single-page-at-a-time web interface, whereas what you're referring to sounds more like a "submit a whole bunch of changes" interface. Not that there aren't advantages to that, but not for the "many users doing many things" nature of wikis.
Quoting Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com:
On 31/05/05, Joel Konkle-Parker jjk3@msstate.edu wrote:
I understand that wikis deal with articles and diffs to those articles. Can MediaWiki (or any other wiki system) deal with groups of related diffs that
get
applied to multiple articles all at once? This would be similar to
changesets
in BitKeeper or subversion repositories.
MediaWiki? No. Other wikis? Who knows, someone might be crazy enough to implement it, but it's not a "standardly wiki" thing to want to do, if that makes any sense. The principle interface of a ("normal"/"traditional") wiki is a single-page-at-a-time web interface, whereas what you're referring to sounds more like a "submit a whole bunch of changes" interface. Not that there aren't advantages to that, but not for the "many users doing many things" nature of wikis.
Yeah, I realize it's not a standard wiki way of doing things, but this type of thing would be perfect for what I have in mind. Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Anyone happen to know of something that can do this?
-- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.org]
E-mail [jjk3@msstate.edu]
On 31/05/05, Joel Konkle-Parker jjk3@msstate.edu wrote:
Yeah, I realize it's not a standard wiki way of doing things, but this type of thing would be perfect for what I have in mind. Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Anyone happen to know of something that can do this?
No, sorry. Are you making a program with the source code on wiki?
On 5/31/05, Joel Konkle-Parker jjk3@msstate.edu wrote:
I've used wikis before, but I'm new to trying to set one up. I have a somewhat conceptual question.
I understand that wikis deal with articles and diffs to those articles. Can MediaWiki (or any other wiki system) deal with groups of related diffs that get applied to multiple articles all at once? This would be similar to changesets in BitKeeper or subversion repositories.
Thanks for your help.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but have you considered MediaWiki's template capability? This allows one page to be inserted into other pages upon rendering. A later change to the template page is then reflected on all pages that use the template page. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
-Rich Holton
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