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    <p>as a personal project I am trying to write a wiki with the help of django. I'm a beginner when it comes to web development. I am at the (early) point where I need to decide how to store the wiki sites. I have three approaches in mind and would like to know your suggestion.</p> <h3>Flat files</h3> <p>I considered a flat file approach with a version control system like git or mercurial. Firstly, I would have some example wikis to look at like <a href="http://hatta.sheep.art.pl/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://hatta.sheep.art.pl/</a>. Secondly, the vcs would probably deal with editing conflicts and keeping the edit history, so I would not have to reinvent the wheel. And thirdly, I could probably easily clone the wiki repository, so I (or for that matter others) can have an offline copy of the wiki.</p> <p>On the other hand, as far as I know, I can not use django models with flat files. Then, if I wanted to add fields to a wiki site, like a category, I would need to somehow keep a reference to that flat file in order to associate the fields in the database with the flat file. Besides, I don't know if it is a good idea to have all the wiki sites in one repository. I imagine it is more natural to have kind of like a repository per wiki site resp. file. Last but not least, I'm not sure, but I think using flat files would limit my deploying capabilities because web hosts maybe don't allow creating files (I'm thinking, for example, of Google App Engine)</p> <h3>Storing in a database</h3> <p>By storing the wiki sites in the database I can utilize django models and associate arbitrary fields with the wiki site. I probably would also have an easier life deploying the wiki. But I would not get vcs features like history and conflict resolving per se. I searched for django-extensions to help me and I found <a href="http://code.google.com/p/django-reversion/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">django-reversion</a>. However, I do not fully understand if it fit my needs. Does it track model changes like for example if I change the django model file, or does it track the content of the models (which would fit my need). Plus, I do not see if django reversion would help me with edit conflicts.</p> <h3>Storing a vcs repository in a database field</h3> <p>This would be my ideal solution. It would combine the advantages of both previous approaches without the disadvantages. That is; I would have vcs features but I would save the wiki sites in a database. The problem is: I have no idea how feasible that is. I just imagine saving a wiki site/source together with a git/mercurial repository in a database field. Yet, I somehow doubt database fields work like that.</p> <p>So, I'm open for any other approaches but this is what I came up with. Also, if you're interested, you can find the crappy early test I'm working on here <a href="http://github.com/eugenkiss/instantwiki-test" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://github.com/eugenkiss/instantwiki-test</a></p>
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    1. COrelated questions if it helps you answering my question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/873801/whats-the-best-way-to-store-versioning-when-writing-a-wiki-application http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1583595/storing-wiki-revisions-on-google-app-engine-django-modifying-this-existing-code
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