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Comment by audionerd | Hacker News Reader

I know non-coders might downvote me for this, but github's recently open-sourced Gollum engine might be a good basis.

  http://github.com/github/gollum

Contributors could write their articles independently, send a pull request, and have their writing merged into the central wiki.

There's also a (minimal) web UI for easy edits, or for users who aren't comfortable with git.

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Gollum seems like a solid choice to me even if we most people don't use the git-ness at all.

It allows lots of markup formats (though we probably would want to pick one so that we don't have one page in textile, another in markdown, and yet another in AsciiDoc, confusing people that try to contribute), does syntax highlighting (which will be extremely useful), allows posting TeX in case we make a foray into a group P!=NP proof, and does allow power users to edit the files in their text editor and git push the changes.

P.S. clickable link: http://github.com/github/gollum

And you can see the editor here: http://github.com/github/gollum/wiki/Home/_edit

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