SmallestFederatedWiki

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This is a new wiki engine concept by WardCunningham and some others. The idea is posting your content to your local wiki, then federating out via various API's. In a sense, wikis become more like blogs in that each person has their own. But pages can migrate through the federation.

The WikiEngine is split between a back-end page storage and a lot of front-end rendering GUI.

The back-end is a standard with two current implementations : One in Wiki:RubyLanguage, using [Rack] and [Sinatra] which is the reference implementation. And a clone in CoffeeScript? running on NodeJs? which is more or less kept up-to-date with the reference.

The client code is all in CoffeeScript?.

The code can be found at https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki

Features

Federation
Plugins for rendering different data / media types
- Each paragraph of a page can have a type. This has been used to demonstrate live graphs of data sets, live streams from InternetOfThings? style FractionalHorsepowerServers? and even ByteBeats? embedded in pages.
Drag and drop repositioning of paragraphs to help with refactoring
Multiple pages rendered side-by-side
- The combination of the Multiple pages and drag-and-drop allows very simple refactoring of text from one page to another.

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