[tz] Using MediaWiki / Wikidata

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Thu Sep 12 10:33:42 UTC 2013


On 11 September 2013 08:19, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> The problem with the github wiki and the sourceforge and other code
> management site wiki's is that they don't allow the sort of control that is
> needed to maintain what will be essentially a reference document to the
> decisions on data in the tz database itself. DVCS is good at managing
> packages of material making up a software project, but documents need a fine
> grain control, which the history mechanism does partially address, but
> access to update needs a different access model.

The wiki may not have easily accessible history, but GitHub Pages do
http://pages.github.com/

eg.
https://github.com/JodaOrg/jodaorg.github.io
and
http://www.joda.org

Stephen



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