Mediawiki-like software for OSS game devs

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Mediawiki-like software for OSS game devs

Postby eightvirtues » Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:01 am

I've done some work in the past for mods, both coding and audio/video, and would like to know if any software exists similar to Mediawiki for archiving and organizing code, images, and audio for use in game development.

I love the speed, organizational capabilities, scalability, and open-ended nature of Mediawiki, but its facilities for maintaining libraries/galleries of textures, sound effects, music, code blocks, and other binary data are clumsy at best.

The basic requirements would allow anyone to create and maintain separate libraries/galleries of code, images, etc., with searchable categories. It would include automatic thumbnail generation for dev browsing without wasting bandwidth, as well as descriptive fields for accurate media/code explanation. User content would be added upon condition of agreeing to publish the content under the GPL or compatible license, and individual users would be held liable for media-related pre-existing licenses that disallow republishing under the GPL. Media in question would be removed upon presentation of evidence suggesting it could not be published under the GPL.

If software exists that meets these needs I will run it from my web server (Bluehost, eightvirtues.com) and hopefully collect OSS game assets and facilitate their use through it. The reason I'm posting this here is because I love Nexuiz and would like to contribute to it, among other game projects.

On that note, if anyone wants to challenge me I'm on public server www.eightvirtues.com (registered name, hosted from my file server). Date and time, haha.
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Postby [-z-] » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:13 pm

The fast rising defacto standard for wikis is dokuwiki, though I thought twiki was a good choice as well. Nexuiz already has a documentation project called OUNS, the Official Unofficial Nexuiz Site who would gladly accept your contributions if you're looking to help out. I'm not sure another wiki will help but rather further diffuse the information we, the Nexuiz community, are attempting to condense.
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Postby Alien » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:27 pm

I would go for cms with gallery, flash audio player and similar addons. Of course, you'll need red5 (oss software) for flash video streaming.
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