[Monotone-devel] Re: distributed wiki?

[Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:35:00 -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:

> Justin Patrin wrote:
>> On 2/8/07, Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Wikis usually use a revision-control system to store their
>>> repositories. Are there any known wikis that use a distributed
>>> revision-control system? If not, would it be worthwhile investigating
>>> basing one on monotone?
>>>
>>> And ... what kind of user interface, comprehensible by the rank novice,
>>> would explain to him what's going on when there are multiple heads in a
>>> page?
>>>
>>>
>> Someone mentioned ikiwiki on the list a while ago and it was mentioned
>> again during the summit. Someone was working on support for it but noone
>> seems to know what came of that. In any case, ikiwiki seems like the way
>> to got for such a thing.
>> 
>> 
> My only problem with ikiwiki is that it is written in perl.  I wrote a
> wiki parser for my website in C++ using boost::spirit and it supports most
> of moin moin's syntax.

Just found ikiwiki entry on the Debian packages site:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/ikiwiki
It seems to indicate that ikiwiki is now happy working with mercurial.  So
it seems there is now a distributed wiki in existence.  Does anyone know
whether they have dealt with the UI problems involved in multiheading? 
You know, the ones discussed last October on this list?

-- hendrik