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===Mediawiki for personal webs=== | ===[[Mediawiki for personal webs]]=== | ||
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About Wikis, the site mediawiki says the following: | About Wikis, the site [[metawikipedia:wiki|mediawiki]] says the following: | ||
::''"A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add and edit content easily and is especially suited for collaborative writing."'' | |||
So these packages are meant to be used for sites that are intended for collaboration, probably with contributions from thousands of individuals, like the case of [[metawikipedia:wikipedia|wikipedia]]. The success of [[metawikipedia:wikipedia]] shows that this indeed is a workable model. What about using wikimedia for a personal web site. Well, I wanted to do this, mainly because I was lazy, but still needed to boast that I have a personal web site. In late nineties [http://web.archive.org/web/20010423023231/www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~assela/index.htm I had a web site]. But the main reason why it was not a sustainable project was that it was written using a [[wikipedia:WYSIWYG]] software, that makes life extremely easy, the first few times that you work on a new site, but makes it impossibly hard when you want to make a small changes and add a few lines here and there! During my experiments with Wikis (that's [[Wiki Intranet for a Research Group|another story]] for another day.) I realized that these Wikis are extremely flexible to grow, although they may have a bit steep learning curve initially. Particularly I liked [[wikipedia:Mediawiki|mediawiki]], the software behind the legendary [[wikipedia:Main_Page|wikipedia]]. | |||
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So these packages are meant to be used for sites that are intended for collaboration, probably with contributions from thousands of individuals, like the case of wikipedia. The success of metawikipedia:wikipedia shows that this indeed is a workable model. What about using wikimedia for a personal web site. Well, I wanted to do this, mainly because I was lazy, but still needed to boast that I have a personal web site. In late nineties I had a web site. But the main reason why it was not a sustainable project was that it was written using a wikipedia:WYSIWYG software, that makes life extremely easy, the first few times that you work on a new site, but makes it impossibly hard when you want to make a small changes and add a few lines here and there! During my experiments with Wikis (that's another story for another day.) I realized that these Wikis are extremely flexible to grow, although they may have a bit steep learning curve initially. Particularly I liked mediawiki, the software behind the legendary wikipedia. | |||
===New Web Site=== | ===New Web Site=== | ||
Revision as of 13:11, 27 March 2006
Mediawiki for personal webs
(22:09, 27 March 2006 (JST)) About Wikis, the site mediawiki says the following:
- "A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add and edit content easily and is especially suited for collaborative writing."
So these packages are meant to be used for sites that are intended for collaboration, probably with contributions from thousands of individuals, like the case of wikipedia. The success of metawikipedia:wikipedia shows that this indeed is a workable model. What about using wikimedia for a personal web site. Well, I wanted to do this, mainly because I was lazy, but still needed to boast that I have a personal web site. In late nineties I had a web site. But the main reason why it was not a sustainable project was that it was written using a wikipedia:WYSIWYG software, that makes life extremely easy, the first few times that you work on a new site, but makes it impossibly hard when you want to make a small changes and add a few lines here and there! During my experiments with Wikis (that's another story for another day.) I realized that these Wikis are extremely flexible to grow, although they may have a bit steep learning curve initially. Particularly I liked mediawiki, the software behind the legendary wikipedia. contd.
New Web Site
Started personal web site. Since I want to work on it during small bits and pieces of time that become available between work and other things, I use the mediawiki system as its skeleton. See the article on using mediawiki as a personal web skelton for more details.
