Data portability is typically a non-goal of software companies. One metric used to be that the market cap of a company was related to how much it would cost their users to move to another application. It still may be an accurate measure when I think of it...<br>
<br>So the mediawiki xml export format is a good thing from your perspective. But what about the wiki text format? Is that a good or a bad thing for you? You can export the docs but you still have to convert to and from wikitext. It's an open format but it can be hard to deal with. <br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Bryan Bishop <<a href="mailto:kanzure@gmail.com">kanzure@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Monday 19 May 2008, "Bill Flanagan" <<a href="mailto:bill.altmail@gmail.com">bill.altmail@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> If anyone sees anything useful in the way they're deploying wikis,<br>
> think about how it may apply to OWW.<br>
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</div>It would definitely apply if it was more distributed, if the data was<br>
able to be checked in and out (much like the ikiwiki example (actual<br>
implementation doesn't matter, ikiwiki is just a good search term)),<br>
and if then we could aggregate this data on OWW.<br>
<br>
There's certainly times when I want to export content of a wiki to my<br>
own personal wiki so that I can work on it for a while without<br>
distracting the typical users. And just to hoard it, too.<br>
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- Bryan<br>
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