[p2p-research] [Open Manufacturing] Re: Self-Repair manifesto

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
> A similar, and perhaps competing site at http://bildr.org happened to
> choose Free/Libre Open source software in the form of Media Wiki as
> the part of their architecture. This turned out to be a good choice,
> because what they walked away with was a fairly robust API that allows
> for Creating, Reading, Updating of records.

For anyone who cares, in 2008 we went over why mediawiki and other
wiki platforms are insufficient.

> example http://wiki.bildr.org/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=API|Main%20Page&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content

re-implementing revision control is silly and i can never quite figure
out why mediawiki did it. Nice to see an xml export tho.

> Furthermore, within Media wiki (and really almost any wiki) it is
> possible to create a vary simple and standard way to enter information
> so that it can be recognized/parsed. translated if needed, and re-used
> outside of the original location. In turn, the possibility should
> exist to contribute back to a resource like ifixit or bildr in the
> same way from the outside (such as from another wiki, or website, or
> database, etc).


- Bryan
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