I must have misspoke and been misunderstood.  One of the key,
distinguishing characteristics of any wiki is the availability of
version information - a record of who made what previous change when.
Are you saying that that information is something that "JSPWiki does not
care at all about?"


On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 02:15 +0300, Janne Jalkanen wrote:

> > Now forgive me for beating the same poor old horse yet again, but, if
> > the WikiName can be changed at any time, doesn't that create a problem
> > in displaying change history?  In the history, some of the page  
> > edits of
> > a given user will be under one WikiName and other edits will be under
> > another new WikiName (essentially the same point I last made to
> > Andrew).
> 
> It creates a human comprehension problem, not a computer science  
> problem :-)
> 
> JSPWiki does not care at all about the authors of the previous edits:  
> they are there just for the benefit of history clarity. Advocates of  
> strong metadata, like Murray, may actually need that info for  
> something, but the engine does not really care at this point.
> 
> /Janne

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