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[feature] Make the github-wiki repository readable #2

Closed NobbZ closed 13 years ago

NobbZ commented 14 years ago

Since the github-wiki will be in a git repo in the future (end of september is planned to convert all) it would be a nice feature for magmawiki if we could load that repository into a magmawiki and save it back as a repository afterwards.

Other cool depending features are left to a cron job :D

epitron commented 14 years ago

I see two problems with this: 1) Painful! 2) People would be viewing the github wiki instead of a magmawiki!

NobbZ commented 14 years ago

No, the Magmawiki is much more beautiful :D But I can understand number 1!

locriani commented 14 years ago

I'm slightly confused, describe this in a bit more detail for me!

epitron commented 14 years ago

It sounds like github will have some kind of standard for shoving a series of wiki revisions into a git repo, thus allowing you to edit your wiki offline and push it into the repository.

It sounds like it could be interesting, but it also sounds painful to do the conversion forwards/backwards from a database-backed wiki.

NobbZ commented 14 years ago

You can read more about the github-git-repo-wiki here: http://github.com/blog/699-making-github-more-open-git-backed-wikis

epitron commented 14 years ago

Ooo, their markup library is neat: http://github.com/github/markup I really like the look of this emacs organizer language too: http://orgmode.org/

epitron commented 14 years ago

So, the problem with using GIT as a wiki storage is that the smallest unit in a diff is a line. Which is fine for a programming language, but in a wiki, there is no idea of a line.

There are characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, sections... but no lines!

The wiki storage/diffing engine was going to store the edits so that people could comment on them, and you could display adds/removes and stuff. Maybe even one of those cool timelines where you can scrub a slider and see the changes animate in realtime.