Which Wiki is right for you?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 03:15:26PM -0400, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> Revision History, and Revision Control Systems are different in
> their scope. Sure you can store revision history in a database, but
> with a control system you can't pull it back out and manipulate it
> easily. By that definition I would say mediawiki also is a form of
> RCS.
> 
> I'm picking a revision control system because most wikis based on
> them leave the source in plain text files. This is beneficial to me
> as I prefer to do my writing/editing in an editor, not a browser.

Mediawiki filesystem seems to provide that too.

> Using a RCSs like git or mercurial also means I can work on branched
> updates to my wiki in private and then push them back to the public
> instance when I'm ready.

OK so what you really wanted was a revision controlled web page framework
for publishing web pages.  You don't want a wiki at all.

> The closest mediawiki came to this was with the 3rd party
> wikipediaFS which was a FUSE based file system interface.
> Unfortunately it has fallen out of maintenance and at last check no
> longer worked correctly with recent version of mediawiki.

Oh they stopped doing that?  It sounded so neat.

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