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'''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]].''
'''GetWiki[http://getwiki.net/ .net]''' 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 ==
== Technical Features ==


*Full support for [[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
* Improved use of [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] styles (colours, positioning)
* Improved use of [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] styles (colours, positioning)
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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..


GetWiki is a [[fork]] of [[MediaWiki]] (like [[PhpWiki]] is a [[fork]] of [[UseModWiki]])
A better explaining [http://http://internet-encyclopedia.org/wiki.php?title=Fork_(software) external "fork" link]
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<small> Technical features copied from http://wikinfo.org/?title=Wikinfo:GetWiki under the clauses of [[GFDL]] </small>
<small> Technical features copied from http://wikinfo.org/?title=Wikinfo:GetWiki under the clauses of [[GFDL]] </small>
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