Encycla – a Git based Wikipedia alternative for everyting

by kurtreed • 4 years ago

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kurtreed2• 4 years ago

Encycla isn't quite a wiki, instead, it's sort of a 'next generation' wiki. Unlike a traditional wiki site, where everyone edits a single page, on Encycla, each user maintains their own personal copy of a page, and changes are suggested (pulled) between pages.

rektide• 4 years ago

The system itself isn't open source, yeah?

trynewideas• 4 years ago

Tangentially, Git's source repo ships with mw-to-git (aka git-mediawiki), a Mediawiki API client that lets you clone and edit wikis as repos, in its contrib: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/mw-to-git/git...

Git-Mediawiki is a project which aims the creation of a gate between git and mediawiki, allowing git users to push and pull objects from mediawiki just as one would do with a classic git repository thanks to remote-helpers.

stevage• 4 years ago

I'm confused about the goal here. Why do we need a Wikipedia alternative? Is it just about having a broader scope?

kurtreed2• 4 years ago

I believe it is. Somewhere it's said that Y Combinator had plans to fund exactly such kind of project.

Encycla – a Git based Wikipedia alternative for everyting

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