>>>>> "James" == James Polley <[email protected]> writes:

James> The slug wiki (horrendous as it is) is DokuWiki, which amongst
James> its other features, stores all its data in plain text files on
James> disk, which makes it amenable to all the usual tools for
James> dealing with textual content - eg, stick it inside bzr, people
James> can check it out, take a copy with them, and merge changes when
James> they get home.

James> As the files are plain-text, they should be somewhat readable
James> on a PDA...

There are other plain-text wikis, including some with a git or
mercurial back-end. 
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ gives a list of 8: Foswiki, Git-Wiki, Hatta,
ikiwiki, KeheiWiki, MoniWiki, PodWiki and TWiki.  But  just because
they use a git or other RCS for a backend, doesn't mean that the Wiki
can be worked on from opposite sides of a firewall and then merged
easily when the mobile device moves back inside the firewall.  Nor
does it mean that the WiKi can easily be used on a low-powered device
(functions needed there are multi-lingual searching, viewing, editing,
syncing of *parts* of the WiKi, according to access controls)


Peter C
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