Encycla
Learning and science
collaborative wiki
SHOW HN2022
44points
9comments
#1,042of 2,570 in 2022
Top 41%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Execution: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Git-backed wiki concept is appealing
From 2 comments
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…
ktpsns on HNIt's basically like Wikipedia but it uses Git. I made a couple articles to test out the editing and it's pretty good so far.
only4here on HN
Requests
Clarify whether the backend is open source
From 1 comment
Is the backend opensource? If not, why? I could totally see this as an alternative to say, Confluence
denysvitali on HN
Support README.md as page content
From 1 comment
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.
theowenyoung on HN
Questions
What open source tools host the git repos and what stack was used
From 1 comment
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?
meowtimemania on HN
Is the backend open source and why
From 1 comment
Is the backend opensource? If not, why? I could totally see this as an alternative to say, Confluence
denysvitali on HN
Alternatives named
MediaWiki via Git-Mediawiki
From 2 comments
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…
20after4 on HNGit-Mediawiki is indeed really cool! I wouldn't say it is that much the same though, and in practice it can be kind of impractical. It takes a really long time to do an initial…
unqueued on HN
Confluence
From 1 comment
Is the backend opensource? If not, why? I could totally see this as an alternative to say, Confluence
denysvitali on HN
Wikipedia
From 1 comment
It's basically like Wikipedia but it uses Git. I made a couple articles to test out the editing and it's pretty good so far.
only4here on HN