cool idea.
i liked the the map part most. can we try to add this on wikipedia?

thanks
nasir

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]>wrote:

> * Philip Neustrom <[email protected]> [Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:40:55
> -0800]:
> > Realized I never sent an announcement here.  I think you folks'd be
> > really interested in checking out what we've been working on:
> >
> > http://localwiki.org
> >
> > We just did our first general-public software release.
> >
> > There's lots of cool stuff going on.  Having worked on the DavisWiki
> > (http://daviswiki.org) code for many, many years [which was a fork of
> > MoinMoin], we really relished the opportunity to design a new, modern
> > wiki engine without the burden of legacy support.
> >
> > Cool bits:
> >
> >   * Everything is stored as HTML5.  We threw out wiki markup.
> I am not so sure that threwing out wiki markup is so good thing. It's
> more compact (takes less storage space) and allows to format text quite
> fast to everyone who is familiar to wiki markup. If you are using HTML5,
> that means the extensions (parser functions) has to be implemented as
> XML tags, which are quite tiresome to input directly, so the extensions
> will probably require visual editor addons. Raw text editing simplifies
> implementation of markup extensions, some developers might do not have
> enough free time to develop their own visual editor extensions. That's
> why raw wikitext can be useful and time-saving.
> Dmitriy
>
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