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The page claims that the new wiki is written with a distributed database but from what I can tell it just writes pages to the file system? https://github.com/f

by NolMan 12y ago

The page claims that the new wiki is written with a distributed database but from what I can tell it just writes pages to the file system? https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-node-server/blob/master/lib/page.coffee#L52 https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-node-server/blob/master/lib/... Am I missing something?

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.