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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: pcplantdb-piwdev <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Report to Threshold
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:04:57 -0400

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

Richard Archer wrote:

Wikis generally store plain text.
Databases generally store highly structured data.
[typo correction]
I was thinking about that and comparing it with storage of wikidata.
What's the difference, on the user end, between entering a large amount
of information on a variety of items and subjects in a wiki page or pages
and entering the same data into a database? What if the result you wanted
from the DB was
a nice outline or a list or maybe in other formats?






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