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    *PHP based
    *PHP based
    *Proven to perform well under heavy load - but with hard limits
    *Proven to perform well under heavy load - but with hard limits
    *Most likely basis for [[wikitext standard]]
    *Only rational basis for [[wikitext standard]] given over one million articles in fifty languages
    *Working now for R&D purposes
    *Working now for R&D purposes
    *Dedicated developers heavily involved in content problems, although they are in general [[Wikipedia]] content problems
    *Dedicated developers heavily involved in content problems, although they are in general [[Wikipedia]] content problems
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    GetWiki is a [[fork]] of MediaWiki
    GetWiki is a [[fork]] of MediaWiki
    *same de facto [[wikitext standard]]
    * Auto-import of Wikipedia articles via [[XML]] using [[PHP programming language|PHP]]'s [[Expat]] Library
    * Auto-import of Wikipedia articles via [[XML]] using [[PHP programming language|PHP]]'s [[Expat]] Library
    * Well-formed [[XHTML]], replacing deprecated [[HTML]] 4.0 versions
    * Well-formed [[XHTML]], replacing deprecated [[HTML]] 4.0 versions
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    *incomprehensible, worthless, [[SourceForge]] bug reporting;  Not humanly possible for [[end user feedback]] to reach developers at all - form for describing [[wiki feature request]] incomprehensible even to a [[usability guru]]
    *Feature rich (e.g. forums, picture gallery, blog, maps, email newsletter)
    *Feature rich (e.g. forums, picture gallery, blog, maps, email newsletter)
    *Comment forum on every page
    *Comment forum on every page
    *Granular user group permissions
    *Granular [[user group]] permissions - may be drawback, see [[forgiveness not permission]]
    *PHP based
    *PHP based
    *Uses different [[wikisyntax]] then Wikipedia
    *Uses different [[wikisyntax]] then Wikipedia
    *Meets ''many'' standards ([[CSS]], [[XHTML]], [[RDF]]
    *Meets ''many'' standards ([[CSS]], [[XHTML]], [[RDF]]
    *Relies on [[pear.php.net]], [[smarty.php.net]]
    *Relies on [[pear.php.net]], [[smarty.php.net]]
    *email/forums (and integration) built-in
    *email/forums (and integration) built-in but rarely used
    *Group management built-in
    *[[Group management]] built-in - would this help with [[faction]]s?
    *chat support intended
    *Visualization of wiki-links
    *Visualization of wiki-links
    *Polls built in
    *[[Polls]] built in
    *Highly active development
    *Large active developer community with scattered documentation and communition forums
    *Large developer community with scattered documentation and communition forums
    *Supports Postgres, Oracle, Sybase and [[SQLite]] (built in PHP 5.0!) databases not just MySQL - strategic to integrate with some [[essential projects]]
    *Supports Postgres, Oracle, Sybase and [[SQLite]] (built in PHP 5.0!) databases not just MySQL - strategic to integrate with some [[essential projects]]
    *developers [[eat their own dog food]] = run current beta as their live site for all development, so any problem is immediately obvious to every developer
    *developers [[eat their own dog food]] = run current beta as their live site for all development, so any problem is immediately obvious to every developer