Wiki creator reinvents collaboration, again

For the more pragmatic ones you might want to look into Fossil SCM by Dr Richard Hipp, author of SQLite.<p><pre><code> * Distributed VCS, tickets and wiki * You can link artifacts together * Single statically linked binary * Works on Linux, Mac and Windows * Not dependent on Javascript * Easily themeable, looks good (important, this means you can slap in the logo and colors from the company web site and avoid lots of questions.) * Easily hackable </code></pre> (That said, I don&#x27;t think the template system is aiming for any awards in the near future.)

It seems like almost every project I work on could benefit from a general-purpose library for storing JSON documents along with a change history, including the change timestamp and author. Also the ability to merge two divergent branches and flag merges that need manual attention. I feel like this has been re-invented again and again. It&#x27;s a bit like embedding git in your application---and maybe that&#x27;s even the best way to go. It would sure be useful! So I wonder if this Wiki project will have some way to extract just that bit of functionality. The distributed nature makes me thing probably not, but who knows?

I was hoping the next generation of wikis (especially as used by wikipedia) would introduce an underlying &#x27;fact unit&#x27; [1] layer on which articles are built, effectively separating edit wars from verification wars.<p>[1] Not the same as a &#x27;knol&#x27;, which as defined by Google was <i>not</i> a unit. A real knol would be a single atomic fact.

I always have a little weird felling about local storage. I can save stuff on my computer but I don&#x27;t know where it is going, so I can&#x27;t back it up nor can I keep it if I format the computer.

Great Project!! The user experience on the page is quite nice--a bit like Trello crossed with GitHub; turning traditionally static wiki content into interactive content.<p>On a related note, I&#x27;m curious to hear what others think about the trend of sending data over-the-wire and rendering HTML on the client. I just started working with Meteor, coming from a traditional web development background, and I see major benefits regarding multi-device rendering and real-time updates. However, I&#x27;m still on the fence regarding this paradigm and continue building new projects with traditional server-side rendering and DOM manipulation.<p>Playing with federated wiki is very convincing that data over-the-wire is the future.

You can find the previous discussion about this (from last month) here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8983158" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8983158</a>

The side by side articles reminds me of TiddlyWiki - a self-contained personal wiki.<p>It&#x27;s a feature I would like to see more use of, as the context of a subject is often spread across multiple pages.

We&#x27;ve been working on a similar idea for a few years now. We have a distributed version called P2Pedia: <a href="http://www.nmai.ca/research-projects/universal-peer-to-peer/p2pedia" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nmai.ca&#x2F;research-projects&#x2F;universal-peer-to-peer&#x2F;...</a><p>and a centralized version as a Moodle plugin called Social Wiki: <a href="http://www.nmai.ca/research-projects/socialwiki" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nmai.ca&#x2F;research-projects&#x2F;socialwiki</a><p>You can try out Social Wiki online (there&#x27;s a link to a demo site on the above link).<p>The UI needs work, but I&#x27;d say Social Wiki is functional. Just need to install Moodle first.

&gt; Wiki creator reinvents collaboration, again [!!!!!!]<p>[Insert prior-art reference probably involving PARC here]

&quot;<i>A conventional wiki, says Mike Caulfield, is &quot;a relentless consensus engine.&quot; A federated wiki may eventually yield consensus, but it promotes what Ward Cunningham calls a chorus of voices.</i>&quot;

There&#x27;s a bit of late 00&#x27;s-style chrome junk in the default design – would love to see this smoothed out.