On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 10:47 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
It'd be nice to have the best of both worlds, i.e. a wiki backed by git, and written in such a way that users who preferred to avoid online editing could use git to edit it locally, using an easy local preview tool, with strong formatting capabilities (like html) instead of the unhappy situation we have now, where formatting is an unreliable mystery.
Yes, I've been dreaming for a long time after such a system. There is a wiki out there that uses git as backend, I forget the name now. But they need more maturing. As for formatting, you don't want to be too crazy, HTML is powerful but also verbose, a wiki needs terse syntax, and that often comes at the expense of seldom used formatting power. That being said, I agree that it could be done a bit better than what we have now.
The other good thing about our wiki is that it has very good uptime and performance (thanks Dimi).
Thank you Dan, I'm really glad to see people use it, and they enjoy the experience. My hope is that it will become even better going forward.