[Mediawiki-l] Alternative implementations

[Dirk Riehle]

Here an interesting alternative implementation for MediaWiki/Wikipedia:

* 
http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/06/itching-my-programming-nerve.html

* http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6981137233069932108 (Wikipedia 
discussion starts 30min into the video)

Basically a p2p backend that claims order of magnitude performance gains 
for writing pages. They ignore the front caches etc. Done in Erlang (+Java).

I was trying to figure out whether this would really be feature parity 
but couldn't fully see it.

For the rendering, they use plog4u---does someone know whether this has 
feature parity with Mediawiki (markup)? We used JAMWiki (Java 
implementation of MediaWiki) only to see later that there was no 
ParserFunctions extension available. (Why is this an extension rather 
than a core part in the first place?)

Thanks!
Dirk

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