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/...
Am I missing something?
https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-node-server/blob/master/lib/...
Am I missing something?
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/wi...
[1]: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/wi...