WikiWars C#ometh

A reader sent me a link to this recently, http://wiki.csharp-online.net.

On first blush, I see sparse content, a slick MediaWiki implementation, and Google Ads... Wait! Is a Microsoft employee actually blogging about this?

[Please wait while I change into my Microsoft SuperSuit.]

I would be much more likely to use and support a C# wiki that runs on a Wiki that is actually written in C#, like FlexWiki.

Eat the C# dogfood!

FlexWiki is a C# .NET shared source project that you can contribute to, modify, download, and deploy on your own site. It's also a grassroots effort that Microsoft supports...http://spaces.msn.com/davidorn/. :-)

FlexWiki WikiTopics can now be stored in either a flat file database or in SQL Server!

Published 06 April 06 09:35 by KorbyP

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# It's my life... And I live it... said on April 6, 2006 1:57 PM:



 Korby is
correct here. I understand having the nice interface and good information out
there...
# ServerGirl said on April 6, 2006 3:10 PM:
I think your are being pretty hard on a new site. Maybe they will use a C# wiki when it reaches the level of MediaWiki. And, maybe Mediawiki hosts are cheaper than C#/Asp hosts. Maybe they don't have access to SQL server on their host.

I think we should support new sites--it's hard to get a new site going today.
# It's my life... And I live it... said on April 6, 2006 5:00 PM:


My responses are getting kind of long. On my blog I got a response
to my rantings on Korby's ...
# ServerGirl said on April 8, 2006 7:35 AM:
I like <a href="http://wiki.csharp-online.net/">C# Online.NET</a> and I think it's going to be a great site!

Do you think MSDN is written in C#?
# ServerGirl said on April 8, 2006 7:41 AM:
Sorry that link should say just:

C# Online.NET: http://wiki.csharp-online.net/
# KorbyP said on April 13, 2006 1:09 PM:
I don't know about MSDN but gotdotnet is written in C# (.NET 2.0) and runs on Windows Server 2003 with SQL Server 2005 "Yukon" servers (64 bit) on the back end.

I walk the walk.

With gotdotnet, I aim to go above and beyond the call of duty in the dogfood eating department. In the future, we are actively considering consuming shared source community code contributions (non-Microsoft), on the server side, with author attribution, of course.

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