From a recent discussion in p.b.scene-files (3dclouds include file), I
wanted to try a solution to make available contributions.

My candidate was a mediawiki, for its indexing & search capability with
a nice display.

The test data set was the object collections... and the evil started.

I had to disable capitalization of first letter in mediawiki, making
links sensible to case, and a few other tunning, such as allowing
extension like pov and inc...

things went as far as copying one entry of the data set. And the
conclusion get reached upon trying to install the second entry:
* it is impossible to rename a pov file (it can be uploaded, but it
refused to rename it later)
* loading html file, even when disabling all type check and black list,
is refused
* the uploaded files must all have unique name, but cannot have
directory name in it (they are flats)

Conclusion: mediawiki is not suitable for the purpose of a collection of
contributions, as conflict on filename is likely to occurs when version
get increased and imposing a whole new naming scheme is a titan's work
for contributions not meant for it.
That, and the html problem: It is dead, Jim.

So, I tried the git approach... on github
* there is no search engine
* you must clone the whole repository (unless you are an expert at
shallow and partial cloning)
* displaying html is possible, but tricky (using a bookmarklet button,
once installed it become easy)

On the positive side:
* user management is on github
* it was rather easy to put the full test data set (far more easy,
actually, when compared to the time to import one entry in the mediawiki)

you can explore (and contribute) at
https://github.com/LeForgeron/PovContributions

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Am 25.05.2017 um 18:19 schrieb Le_Forgeron:

> So, I tried the git approach... on github
> * there is no search engine
> * you must clone the whole repository (unless you are an expert at
> shallow and partial cloning)
> * displaying html is possible, but tricky (using a bookmarklet button,
> once installed it become easy)

On GitHub, a very neat alternative to HTML is Markdown.

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