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He doesn't mean that each server uses a distributed database to store its documents. The wiki is federated, much like Usenet is through the network of NNTP ser

by mbrock 12y ago

He doesn't mean that each server uses a distributed database to store its documents. The wiki is federated, much like Usenet is through the network of NNTP servers. For more info, see Cunningham's documents "On Federating Wiki" [0] and "Federation Details" [1]. This is distributed in the sense that Git is a distributed source control system. [0]: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/wiki/On-Federating-Wiki https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/wi... [1]: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/wiki/Federation-Details https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/wi...

NolMan 12y ago
Cool, thanks!
shoover 12y ago
That said, there are also options to use databases for page storage on the back end: https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-node https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-node.