How it works

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* Why mediawiki instead than wordpress ?
 
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Well, first mediawiki is actually being used by the wordpress creators
 
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(automattic) for their [https://developer.wordpress.org developer documentation]  as proof of powerfulness of its features.
 
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Then, because the business model of mediawiki and wordpress are completely different.
 
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Wordpress allows an easy use but as soon as you want to expand or complete your
 
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website you are pushed (or constrained) to paying solutions.
 
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Mediawiki (as well as our platform) is completely free, including any desirable
 
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advanced feature, at cost to deal yourself with the code (starting from wikicode
 
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itself, and proceeding with the creation of dedicated extensions).
 
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Then, because the intrinsic anti-immediacy of mediawiki force at the quality of contents:
 
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dealing with wikicode (either entered through the help of visual editor, or not) on the one
 
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hand slows down the content creation, and on the other provides you with a powerful set of
 
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formatting and structuring tools.
 
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Then because mediawiki offers a strong versioning controlling and allow a collaborativeness that wordpress is not able to offer: many people can work on the same content in the same time, and notwithstanding the integrity of the content is preserved, and you can access all the changes made by each of editors at any time.
 
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Finally because through the general design of our platform (where mediawiki is used as backend site) the presentation of the content (i.e. the appearance of the website) can be completely decoupled by the content itself: a part of your team can solely take care of contents, and their structure or pages structure, and another part of the team can design a frontend solution which will queries the APIs, and to consume those content in any way, using the semantic data container therein.
 
  
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* Why a platform representing the Italian culture is conceived in English ?
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Well, surely because English is the ''lingua franca'' of our times.
 
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Then because the native language of world of technology, to which this platform refers to,
 
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is English.
 
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Then because this would be also a demonstration of the ability of a kind of "Italian culture" to speak a technological language without diverting from its authentic nature which is intrinsically humanistic.
 
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Then of course because the audience for this platform is meant to be international that is being able to speak only partially the Italian language:
 

Revision as of 13:03, 21 June 2020

Introduction

Introduction

Application form

Application form


Pages structure

Pages structure


Forms & semantic data

Forms & semantic data


Images upload & gallery

Images upload & gallery


Frontend Index

Frontend Index


Banner


APIs

APIs

Parser functions

Parser functions


Join team

Join team


For administrators

For administrators


Logically related questions (L.R.Q.)

(another way of indicating "frequently asked questions" which have not yet been asked)


Logically related questions

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