Given a centralized wiki, what is the best way to track changes? What does wikipedia.org use?

CodePudding user response：

Wikis do not usually use a source code version control system like Git. They each use their own way to track versions. MediaWiki (which is the software that Wikipedia runs on) stores all its pages and versions in a SQL database.

There is a Git-based wiki system called Gollum, but due to the decentralized nature of Git, it's not a "centralized wiki" as in your question.

CodePudding user response：

Wikipedia use Mediawiki. Even if I have been a wikipedian for 16 years, I can't really tell if it is the best since I have little experience in other systems. But I can at least say that it is a very solid way of tracking changes.