D Wiki

[Brad Roberts]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Yigal Chripun wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
> > Jesse Phillips wrote:
> > > I also believe all obsolete content should be removed, there is little
> > > reason to preserve a versioned content.
> > 
> > The reason to keep a versioned content is when people argue about when an
> > idea first appeared and who gets the credit for it. It happens often enough,
> > and has saved my legal bacon on multiple occasions.
> > 
> > Besides, storage is so cheap these days that can't be an issue. I was
> > stunned to find 1Tb drives for $89.99. I might even re-rip my CD collection
> > to FLAC <g>.
> 
> I think he meant to say that there is no need to have obsolete content in the
> *latest* version if the content is versioned and can be retrieved from the
> history.
> 
> I also hate wiki systems. I think even just plain old HTML with a git backend
> would be orders of magnitude better.
> other alternatives that come to mind:
> 
> 1) A CMS - depends on what package you choose but some are very good at
> organization of content and also no need to deal with different home-grown
> wiki dialects (I never understood what's the point of replacing HTML. NIH
> syndrome or something?)
> 
> 2) google wave server would be extremely awesome once it's released later this
> year.
> 
> --yigal

The killer feature of wiki's are that they're inline editable.  No need to 
work with multiple systems, just click, edit, view.  Yes, you can build 
that on top of almost any scm.  It's really not at all an interesting back 
end problem.  The challenge is ease of use.

Later,
Brad