Walter Bright wrote:
Jesse Phillips wrote:
I also believe all obsolete content should be removed, there is little
reason to preserve a versioned content.
The reason to keep a versioned content is when people argue about when
an idea first appeared and who gets the credit for it. It happens often
enough, and has saved my legal bacon on multiple occasions.
Besides, storage is so cheap these days that can't be an issue. I was
stunned to find 1Tb drives for $89.99. I might even re-rip my CD
collection to FLAC <g>.
I think he meant to say that there is no need to have obsolete content
in the *latest* version if the content is versioned and can be retrieved
from the history.
I also hate wiki systems. I think even just plain old HTML with a git
backend would be orders of magnitude better.
other alternatives that come to mind:
1) A CMS - depends on what package you choose but some are very good at
organization of content and also no need to deal with different
home-grown wiki dialects (I never understood what's the point of
replacing HTML. NIH syndrome or something?)
2) google wave server would be extremely awesome once it's released
later this year.
--yigal
