>On 2007-10-01 Paul Bennett wrote:
>> I plan to produce a wiki-style collaborative project for
>> historical/comparative linguist(ic)s. Rather than starting from
>> scratch, I've decided to look at forking Mediawiki
>
>rather than that you should look into writing
>extensions to MW. I think you could do many
>things with templates. If what you have in mind
>is talking to dictionary databases it might be
>another matter, although extensions should handle that
>too.
>
>
>/BP 8^)>
You might also want to look at http://www.wikimatrix.org/ to get a wider
look at publicly available wiki engines...
John Vertical