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notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It’ll be much more than that, eventually.
- Author: onefang
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notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It’ll be much
-more than that, eventually.
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So to start with it’s not a wiki. It’s currently a way to create a web
-site with CommonMark wiki markup, using git to update the content.
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So it’s not a wiki, yet.
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Next comes accounts and online editing of content with the web pages.
-It’ll then barely be a wiki.
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The missing bit is talk pages, which requires some sort of archiving chat
-system built into the thing. Now it’s Yet Another Wiki.
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Finally comes the magic, so it’s “not Yet Another Wiki”, it’s much more
-than that.
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A web forum is basically a web based chat system with archiving. We got
-that now, we can just say it’s a web forum as well. Just leave off the
-wiki page bit.
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Only difference between an instant messaging system and a web forum is
-how fast it runs. So just make this fast, then we can call it an instant
-messaging system.
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Put email behind a web forum, you got a mailing list with a web archive.
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An issue tracker is basically a wiki type page with the forum style
-messages, and often an email control system. Only that last bit needs to
-be added.
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A lot of projects will put together all of these things to support their
-users. Different systems, different accounts, same info. Too much “Oh,
-that’s in the forum somewhere” on the mailing list or whatever.
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notYetAnotherWiki puts it all together as a single system, with multiple
-ways of using it depending on what the users want, and ways of organising
-the useful info that makes it’s way into the system one way or another.
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Someone comes into your chat system, asking for help, within minutes
-people are helping out and come up with a working solution. After a few
-other people turn up with the same problem, the existing conversations
-are moved to the decumentation section, where the original participants
-and others can polish it into proper documentation about solving what has
-suddenly become a common problem. Every one knows where to find it, on
-the one system. They can chat about it, on the one system.
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What does it do already?
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Currently it’ll scan the current directory and subdirectories rooking for
-.md files in CommonMark syntax. This should cover some MarkDown
-variations. Then it produces .HTML files converted from these .md files,
-and links them all together into a web site.
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git is used to store the .md files, and provides edit history. Added on
-the footer is links to cgit, which is used to store the files in git on
-your server. This provides acces to the source code, history, and ATOM
-feed for the site.
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