[OWW-Discuss] WetPaint: nex-gen wiki?

[Bill Flanagan]

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...

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.



On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 19 May 2008, "Bill Flanagan" <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If anyone sees anything useful in the way they're deploying wikis,
> > think about how it may apply to OWW.
>
> It would definitely apply if it was more distributed, if the data was
> able to be checked in and out (much like the ikiwiki example (actual
> implementation doesn't matter, ikiwiki is just a good search term)),
> and if then we could aggregate this data on OWW.
>
> There's certainly times when I want to export content of a wiki to my
> own personal wiki so that I can work on it for a while without
> distracting the typical users. And just to hoard it, too.
>
> - Bryan
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