[WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/4/23 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/4/23 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
>
>> I'll let you use p2pedia.org.  :)
>
>
> Suggestion: Distributed git-based backed for MediaWiki.
>
> Usefulness: encouraging forks *and merges*. Now *that* could kick
> Wikipedia's arse in useful and productive ways.

I recall this being discussed before somewhere (mediawiki-l?). It's an
interesting idea, but I don't know enough about git to know if it
could actually be made to work (it would need something better than
our current edit conflict system, for a start).