Month: November 2024

Hello all! I thought I’d make a quick blog post to talk about one of the design decisions within Wikijump to maintain compatibility with existing Wikidot data: IDs. Like many other pieces of software, both Wikidot and Wikijump use numerical IDs to uniquely identify various data objects. To name a few, all users have an ID, as do all sites, all pages, all revisions within those pages, etc. The most common way to uniquely assign such IDs is to do so sequentially. You start with say 1, and then every time a new user is created you take the current…