design notes wiki, was: How to get diff to yield result in terms of original function

Concerning a wiki for Maxima design notes,

--- Stavros Macrakis <stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> wrote:
[...]
> Does anyone on this list have experience with Wikis used in this way?
> (Or pointers to successful Wikis of this sort?)  The Wikis I've seen
> are mostly about documenting an existing body of knowledge.  In this
> case, it is a question of documenting discussion and debate. 
> I am not sure that Wikis are the ideal way to do this, but it's
> worth trying, especially if we can find a successful model.

I have seen > 1 FAQ implemented via wiki. Also Wikipedia.org has
a discussion page for each article (and these pages are heavily
used). These examples suggest that discussing design notes 
via wiki will be workable. 

> Also, what do you do if you want to download a snapshot of an entire
> Wiki?  Is there anything like a cross between Wiki and CVS?

PhpWiki and MediaWiki (Wikipedia) both support snapshots, and both
support page histories with diff capability. I suspect these are 
common features, although I don't know for sure.

Regards,
Robert Dodier

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