GetWiki: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 06:07, 9 March 2004

GetWiki is the improved software that is a fork of MediaWiki, in use at Wikinfo. It should probably be listed in the comparisons of wiki code.

Technical Features

Auto-import of Wikipedia articles via XML using PHP's Expat Library
Improved use of CSS styles (colours, positioning)
Cleaner output to the browser, PHP code underneath
Well-formed XHTML, replacing deprecated HTML 4.0 versions
More integrated and effective use of CSS2, beyond font colours
More intuitive User Preferences page
Clearer labeling and checkbox placements
Fixed user login retention and other fixes
Better use of licensing notices on pages
Image thumbnail display

Further Improvements

Better organization of functions and classes, filenames and variables
More comprehensive administrator tools

http://internet-encyclopedia.org/?title=Wikinfo:GetWiki

Serious Development Culture drawbacks

Anyone considering using GetWiki should review the critical point of view of it taken at Recyclopedia. It would appear that the primary developer, M.R.M._Parrott, is a simple control freak with no capacity whatsoever to engage in a standards process or work within a deliberative democracy. He seems also to have a strongly commercial bias though he tellingly accuses others of having same. He seems further to have objected strongly to deletion of his own biography from Wikipedia, but has no conscience about deleting necessary standards-related articles from Wikinfo to make it harder for mediawiki developers to find, and etc..

Technical features copied from http://wikinfo.org/?title=Wikinfo:GetWiki under the clauses of GFDL

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 == Serious Development Culture drawbacks ==
-Anyone considering using '''GetWiki'' should review [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=GetWiki:_critical_point_of_view the critical point of view of it taken at Recyclopedia].  It would appear that the primary developer, [[M.R.M._Parrott]], is a simple [[control freak]] with no capacity whatsoever to engage in a [[standards process]] or work within a [[deliberative democracy]].  He seems also to have a strongly [[commercial bias]] though he tellingly accuses others of having same.  He seems further to have objected strongly to deletion of his own biography from [[Wikipedia]], but has no conscience about deleting necessary standards-related articles from [[Wikinfo]] to make it harder for [[mediawiki]] developers to find, and etc..
+Anyone considering using '''GetWiki''' should review [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=GetWiki:_critical_point_of_view the critical point of view of it taken at Recyclopedia].  It would appear that the primary developer, [[M.R.M._Parrott]], is a simple [[control freak]] with no capacity whatsoever to engage in a [[standards process]] or work within a [[deliberative democracy]].  He seems also to have a strongly [[commercial bias]] though he tellingly accuses others of having same.  He seems further to have objected strongly to deletion of his own biography from [[Wikipedia]], but has no conscience about deleting necessary standards-related articles from [[Wikinfo]] to make it harder for [[mediawiki]] developers to find, and etc..
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 <small> Technical features copied from http://wikinfo.org/?title=Wikinfo:GetWiki under the clauses of [[GFDL]] </small>