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Speaking for me, it has nothing to do with philosophical principles like "keeping the web as a web of hyperlinked documents" or to use html and http as intended
by emsy 12y ago
Speaking for me, it has nothing to do with philosophical principles like "keeping the web as a web of hyperlinked documents" or to use html and http as intended. Rather, it's using the right tool for the problem. Google Docs and Etherpad are word processors first and then document collections. A wiki is a document collection with the ability to edit. For a document collection, it's important that you can simply download, copy and crawl the documents. Of course this is possible with a SPA, but now your solving problems for your tool instead of the other way round.
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- notthemessiah 12y agohttp://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiIsNotWikipedia http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiIsNotWikipedia Wikipedia is a document collection that happens to be implemented and edited using a wiki. Wikis are much more general tools. There are many "document collections" that are nearly impossible to crawl. Every have to use PACER or many other databases of scanned PDFs? Many web pages require you to reverse engineer HTML to gain a meaningful sense of structure, where Smallest Federated Wiki has APIs and is made in every way to be copied.