Comments on: DistriWiki: A Proposal

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:43:22 +0000

…which are all hosted at the same servers run by the same admins, run by the same rules.

By: deejoe

deejoe — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:47:52 +0000

There are already different versions of Wikipedia with divergent content: The various language Wikipedias.

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:05:03 +0000

Read the article, but comments… tl;dr

Anyhow, something like this will require a much better backend than the one MediaWiki currently has. That is, something capable of actual merges. I think Darcs got that pretty good for code (disclaimer: I never figured out how to actually *use* Darcs), but AFAIK it was still line-based. MediaWiki does something right because it can diff by character. Some combination would seem like a good idea. And in any case, there must be some UI for merging (or even *remerging* something the computer did wrong) by hand.

By: Shashi

Shashi — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:53:00 +0000

Man, very inspiring!

@Zoe Blade: My thoughts are it is good to look up to the git (as in the version control system) way of doing things for the federation protocol (if you are going to be working on one , each wiki can make itself a module of Wikipedia, or another wiki, or not, and pull/push from there. Allow to fork an entire wiki, etc.

I took a look at your site, I think it would be wise to build on MediaWiki (as a set of extensions) than start from scratch. It’s a great project

@Jason
It would be awesome if you discussed this with wise people you know and wrote about the (preferred) technical details!

> Look up the history. Or don’t, and trust me.

You da man! \o/

By: Limeeater

Limeeater — Sat, 15 May 2010 23:10:11 +0000

No problem, sorry I got it wrong- it would be great to see something like this become a reality someday- and any entry on Wikipedia that brings up what a fascist blowhard Wales is is a plus in my book.