[Novalug] wiki with version control / collaboration

[Jay Hart]

I was looking at Mediawiki.

Unless I wnat very small sections, such as the following structure.

Chapter1
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
etc

With each subsection having its own page, then the wikis I have looked at will be unsuitable.

Imagine that someone hands you a 600 page document, and says "we know changes were made from the
previous version, go find them, and let us know what they were".

My deliverable for this class will be approx 600 pages (+-50), so trying to "look" through a
revision history would be very tedious. It might take hours.

I need some method to actually see the changes on the "page", and have some sort of approval
process, that would make permanent the removal/deletion of the text.

Jay


> novalug-request at calypso.tux.org wrote on 1/25/2007, 10:21 PM:
>
>  > > > > I'm taking my last class prior to getting my masters degree (yes,
>  > > > > thank you, thank you very much).
>  > > > >
>  > > > > I'm looking for an online application that is easy to use, semi
>  > > > > secure, and does version control similar to track changes in MS
>  > > > > Word.
>  > > > >
>  > > > > So, I though I would ask what some of you who might have done
>  > > > > online document collaboration use?
>
> I'm surprised no one has mentioned MediaWiki.  It is the 800 pound
> gorilla of wikis.  It requires a database, such as MySQL, but the
> installation is really quite easy.  See
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
>
> This is the wiki software used by Wikipedia.  It has a history tab which
> allows you to compare versions or easily revert changes.
>
> -Sean
>
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