> As an example tomorrow morning I have to get my ass up real early and teach a 
> computer class for a very large local medial establishment.  A real teacher 
> made the course.  I read it over and found a few technical errors.  Corrected 
> them, put the whole course on wikipsaces the other day.

This is collaboration, not publication.  In a collaborative setting you have 
many (more than one) editing any given document.  A wiki may be useful in such 
environments.

On the other hand, a private collaboration can do well using Git to replicate 
documents among themselves.  I have two small groups using Git + SmartGit in 
this capacity and they have been pleased with it.  The system has worked out 
well for both groups specifically because the distributed replicas let them 
work without requiring constant net.

Networked storage isn't automatically a nightmare.  Using the wrong tool for 
the job is what makes a nightmare, whether that tool is distributed storage or 
a wiki or Git.  This is the reason I asked about what it is you are doing.  
There are lots of wikis to choose from but if a wiki is the wrong tool then 
suggesting my favorite wiki isn't helpful.

Regardless, I do suggest not using MediaWiki (what Wikipedia uses).  Extracting 
documents from MediaWiki is painful at best.  It really wasn't designed with 
that in mind.

--Rich P.

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