Posted by Peter.H.M.Brooks on 09/09/06 18:14

larry@portcommodore.com wrote:
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> Wikis were designed to be fast and simple, and also the documents more
> or less portable so they don't go into much typographioc styling (this
> is also a limitation of displaying with HTML, which does not support
> tabs and the like.). But a Wiki is an excellent place to do the bulk
> of the writing and editing and trhen finish by transporting to a more
> versattile system.
>
That link is very useful!

A couple of features that I don't see mentioned. I wonder if they exist
somewhere.

Is there a non-centralised or distributied wiki? When I'm collaborating
with other people, I'd like to share some pages or domains with them so
that they can load and work with them on demand (with just the pages
they want when they want them), but that I keep my definitive pages and
they keep theirs. Is this possible with any of these? I wouldn't mind
if the pages were even exchanged by e-mail, but a less cumbersome
method would be even nicer.

Also, connected, but slightly different. Are there any that support
setting up rules and scripts for pages? So, as in the above, you can
say that if a page is in this domain then it should be backed up on
your machine if it has changed or if it has an 'active' status and is
'high' priority then it should be shared everywhere even when not
demanded? That sort of thing?

I'm sure that it isn't too difficult to add these to an open souce
wiki, but I just wondered if there were some that make this simple and
not too error prone!

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