Category:GetWiki: Difference between revisions

|name             = GetWiki

|logo             = http://www.getwiki.net/images/getwiki.gif

|URL              = http://www.getwiki.net

|changes URL = No<!--http://YourWikiURL.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges – if none, use No-->

|wikinode URL     = No <!--http://YourWikiURL.org/wiki/WikiNode – if none, use No-->

|status            = Active

|language         = English

|editmode          = LoginToEdit

|maintopic         = Wiki Engine

|prog language     = PHP

|s/w license       = Creative Commons License

'''GetWiki''', as well as GetWiki.net, uses W3 recommended {{tag|XHTML}}/{{tag|Cascading Style Sheets|CSS}} standards.  GetWiki is a {{tag|PHP}} application using a {{tag|MySQL}} database, and more information and resources are available on [[GetMeta]], a [[wiki]] for the discussion of philosophy, science and technology, and support of GetWiki.

The engine, {{tag|FoundedIn2004|founded in 2004}}, is a fork development of the [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] engine.  The main purpose of the {{tag|Wiki Engine|engine}} actually was to originally power [[Wikinfo|Wikinfo.org]], a website which forks the whole [[English Wikipedia]]!, (Wikinfo formerly used [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]])!

''Instead of red links, GetWiki uses <font color=green>green</font> links to point to articles which do not exist locally.  When the user follows such a link, GetWiki tries to dynamically fetch it from the wiki designated as an external source (in Wikinfo's case, the English Wikipedia), renders and displays the article text.  A local copy is created only if the page is edited.  Effectively, Wikinfo therefore provides a transparent "wrapper" around Wikipedia pages which have not yet been copied.'' See [[wp:Wikinfo|Wikipedia's page about Wikinfo]].