Articles
Articles are simple text files which are rendered with markdown formatting.
Settings Article
The settings article is a 'magic' article. It contains the voting settings candiwi uses to determine if and when a proposal should be considered accepted.
By changing this file, the community can decide for example on the minimum quorum for a proposal to be accepted.
Repositories
All articles are stored an a repository which is used for version tracking.
Main Repository
The main repository only contains articles on which consensus has been achieved and cannot be modified directly.
Proposal Repository's
All editing is takes place in proposals, which are copy's of the main repository. If a proposal is submitted for voting and accepted all changes made in the proposal will be applied to the main repository.
History
Every change in candiwi is recorded and can be viewed.
Revision
A revision describes a state of a repository.
Change
A change describes the difference between two revisions.
Concurrent Editing
Because candiwi is build on on top of a distributed versioning system it fully supports concurrent editing.
Branching
todo
Merging
todo
Voting
todo