[Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

[Denny Vrandecic]

Just another pointer, here is a distributed MediaWiki system developed  
at INRIA. I haven't looked into it yet too deep, but their evaluation  
looked very promising.

<http://m3p.gforge.inria.fr/pmwiki/pmwiki.php>

Best,
denny

On Oct 16, 2009, at 10:30, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Denny Vrandecic
> <denny.vrandecic at kit.edu> wrote:
>> That is pretty cool. But wouldn't it make more sense to have a more-
>> fine grained blame, like the one in wikitrust, down to the character
>> level?
>
> I don't know all these wikitools, but if the feature is missing from
> git, then it will benefit all projects using it.
>
> My fascination with using a real distribute version control system is
> that it provides the features that we are missing from the mediawiki.
>
> We can use standard tools to do good things, and not have to reinvent
> the world all the time.
>
> We don't need to have a centralized repository and only one point of
> view, using a real VCS means that we can multiple hosts, multiple
> points of view and a failsafe system.
>
> My next steps are to work on the reader tool in creating latex output
> and espeak output of the  articles, I am adding in the unicode
> character support right now. I would like to get that up to speed, to
> use PDF / Audio rendering of the articles.
>
> I will continue to just work with selected articles and improve the
> import feature. It should be easy to have an import tool feed by an
> rss feed for some articles that imports them on a regular basis.
>
> Mike
>
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