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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 | ||
* | *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? | ||
*Visualization of wiki-links | *Visualization of wiki-links | ||
*Polls built in | *[[Polls]] built in | ||
* | *Large active 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 | ||