[WikiEN-l] [[New anti-Semitism]] and violations of NPOV re: top image

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 10:40:09 UTC 2006


On 26/08/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at 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.



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