[sf-lug] sf-lug Digest, Vol 70, Issue 16

[Wladyslaw Zbikowski]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Almost all wikis have VCS back-ends.  Unfortunately, that is the wrong
> tool for the problem space I spoke of, which is user-local editing of
> sets of plaintext or RTF files, coordinated via a droolproof
> user-authenticated Web front end to a shared VCS repo.

MediaWiki with ItsAllText would technically permit local editing of
plaintext, although perhaps with some hassle to accommodate
totally-offline users. I imagine you are looking for something using
HTML-form file upload or perhaps WebDAV. Maybe one of the open
groupware/project collaboration suites could support this use case
with its "file sharing" features e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindquarry