I am with a little group of science fiction fans. We are looking at
starting a science fiction wiki with synopses, reviews, literary
criticism, and above all trivia. We have a big vision for the site
since Wikipedia won't let us put our trivia there and it annoys us. So
basically the vision is for an encyclopedia, but different content from
Wikipedia. The obvious choice is MediaWiki.
One potential participant writes, "I hate MediaWiki and will not
participate as a technician if you use it." Fine, so we ask him why he
doesn't like it and to pick anything he likes as long as it uses either
MySQL or Postgresql on the back end.
The potential participant says he hates MediaWiki because it was
designed with a flat user model. It has no built in hierarchy and we
will want hierarchy. He also says he *LOVES* Foswiki. Oh one little
thing, it uses a flat file back end, but no worries it will scale.
I have a database background, the news that Foswiki does NOT use a RDBMS
as a back end set off all kinds of alarms. Nevertheless, Foswiki is a
strong candidate to be the engine for our project.
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1. Is Foswiki a good candidate for our encyclopedia project?
2. How do you store your data?
3. Why is your storage as reliable as MySQL?
4. How do I back up your wiki?
5. I think I can extract data from MediaWiki as MySQL SQL scripts
that are almost portable. Can I do something similar with Foswiki?
6. Can I run 24/7/365?
7. Our project leader is not only talented technically, he is a good
marketer. We plan to be _very_ successful. How does Foswiki
scale? What is the biggest Foswiki wiki today?
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