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Welcome to the ns.dwiki wiki!

DWiki is a desktop wiki which is intended to fit into a similar space to Tomboy.
It does take a different approach though, (currently) using wiki markup not WYSIWYG, and it uses git for version control and distributed editing.
Git has some good advantages over internal synchronisation:

1. It exists and is well maintained, so all we have to do is provide a data model which is compatible with Git (ie, files and folders)
2. Git is naturally distributed, so you can start with a local wiki, one day start backing it up, then let others contribute, even branch and merge if you find that useful :)
3. As a developer you can use your existing skills to debug any issues with it, instead of trying to learn a new synch mechanism

The initial implementation uses a hacked up Trac style markup.
In writing this project i was surprised to find there is no standardised Wiki markup framework.
Moin, Trac, Zwiki, etc all have their own parsers and formatters which are tightly integrated into their own frameworks.