federated wiki

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/wiki-inventor/

HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4199260

from the Wired article: "The federated wiki is an attempt to solve these problems. As a starting point, he has built a new piece of software — dubbed The Smallest Federated Wiki — to demonstrate the concept. The radical idea of the wiki was to put an edit button on every page. The radical idea of the federated wiki is to put a “fork” button on every page."

"The similarities between the federated wiki and GitHub are not coincidental. “The radical code sharing that’s implicit to GitHub was an inspiration,” Cunningham says."