For similar ability with an existing wiki you can use something like https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki to access the content of a mediawiki instance using the git client tools.
this is great, i was thinking about making a history chain where historians can help seed and propagate content, complete with an profile for each user and their stats, a breakdown of how their stats came to be.
kind of like a baseball card for each historian where people can explore who vouched for who.
there can even be forks where people disagree on what happened, that way the user can follow the evidence, refute it or comment on it for other users to see, kind of like how wikipedia does it but for comments.
that way we can make history more persistent than current archive methods.
but anyways, great work! always good to see educational projects being built, my parents bought a pc for the family, we were homeschooled and a lot of my education (outside of textbooks) came from cd/floppy disk encyclopedias and other educational software
Really like this idea. Did you leverage any open source tools to host/manage all the git repos? What tools did you use to build the backend/frontend?
I like this concept. Why don’t you just use README.md as the content? Then a lot of awesome list can easily be imported to Encycla.
Like.. a wiki?
Is the backend opensource? If not, why?
I could totally see this as an alternative to say, Confluence
I love the concept of incorporating git and wiki. I frequently catch myself of implementing some git managament for files in my tools. This is an "inner platform effect", since git is part of my software development platform. But it's a good part! :-)