Category:GetWiki: Difference between revisions

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{{Wiki Engine
|name              = GetWiki
|logo              = [[Image:NoLogo.png]] <!--you may hotlink to the logo-->
|URL              = http://www.getwiki.net
|recentchanges 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          = OpenEdit
|maintopic        = Wiki Engine
|prog language    = PHP
|s/w license      = Creative Commons License
}}
The following wikis are powered by the '''GetWiki''' wiki engine.
The following wikis are powered by the '''GetWiki''' wiki engine.


The homepage is at : [http://www.getwiki.net/ getwiki.net]. This is not itself a wiki, but [[GetMeta]] wiki is partly aimed at describing/discussing the engine.
The homepage is at: [http://www.GetWiki.net GetWiki.net]. This is not itself a wiki, but [[GetMeta]] wiki is partly aimed at describing / discussing the engine.


The engine is a fork development of the [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki engine]]. The main purpose of the engine actually is to power [[wikinfo.org]] a website which forks the whole english wikipedia!
The engine, {{tag|FoundedIn2004|founded in 2004}}, is a fork development of the [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki engine]]. The main purpose of the engine actually is to power [[wikinfo.org]], a website which forks the whole [[English Wikipedia]]!


The engine has some special features aimed specifically at forking wikipedia.
The engine has some special features aimed specifically at forking [[:Category:Wikipedia|wikipedia]].
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''Instead of red links, GetWiki uses green 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinfo Wikipedia's page about wikinfo]
''Instead of red links, GetWiki uses green 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinfo Wikipedia's page about wikinfo].
 
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