From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: moving to a git-backed wiki Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:14:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <7vzkqh8vqw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwrll57ha.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vsjw957fq.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vzkqg4x2h.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110131225529.GC14419@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20110201201144.GA16003@sigill.intra.peff.net> <4D488DCD.3080305@eaglescrag.net> <4D4929F4.3020805@snarc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Vincent Hanquez , "J.H." , Jay Soffian , Jeff King , Scott Chacon , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 02 12:15:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkag2-0003gp-AZ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:15:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753719Ab1BBLPC convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:15:02 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:35196 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753521Ab1BBLPA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:15:00 -0500 Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so419029bwz.19 for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:14:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+c8gxYofLuHi0GZQV7FlJM4HZeWffIi5hBpxW+uN0Ec=; b=G4ofevjHem+iHVJNkekMiWgYeSDU5DiKztWsw8YYUpNvjZGZBzjcRi9kbwgSxMCnk3 yqGc3AQHr7BQpEpV7Z6g4Kepnx1HSZZhaUMV7U5g+GTim0/11Gvgn8fhm/gOexi2yKBc 7LnL9cIIEfG8s80G2epW9FCyRmMRBg04/cqmM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=iFQlJc/uPs0gVi3ov+KE+WMcGr7oUr5osTYwxw8U6V3MyZA59I2L372AbimeDuD+qy BT+CuBt2wFiD3l9giY6Ey62D9d9WCWru+Smc6uOkLtdTvEa0iU6lN3zWsfDGUCfoPlA2 GutwewUcwIftt1gm36LI0tccOfE6hexao1y7s= Received: by 10.204.118.4 with SMTP id t4mr7864784bkq.38.1296645298943; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:14:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvv233.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.219.233]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b6sm11573462bkb.10.2011.02.02.03.14.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:14:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p12BE1CJ006326; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:14:12 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id p12BDRQt006320; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:13:27 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =46elipe Contreras writes: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Vincent Hanquez wrot= e: >> =A0On 01/02/11 22:48, J.H. wrote: >>> >>> The wiki will almost universally have a "central site" no matter wh= at >>> the backend. =A0Personally I see little advantage to having a git b= acked >>> wiki myself. >> >> with git based wiki, you can clone the whole wiki on your local mach= ine, and >> read/edit/commit on it locally using standard editor tool (i.e. $EDI= TOR). >> and the history/revision/diff is completely built-in. >=20 > But there's no git based wiki (or any other wiki) that has even a > fraction of the features that MediaWiki has, or IMO a markup format > similarly sane. Gollum (the engine used by git-based wikis on GitHub) offers support for MediaWiki format. I don't know how it is with editing and presenting history (end e.g. reverting spam), especially on older or text browsers. --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git