A Wiki for personal use...

[Meian]

I wasn't sure if to post this here or General but I'll try here first

Long story short, I do some personal projects and wanted to use a type of wiki (not wikipedia obviously, like wikia or something instead) for it so it'll look cleaner than using pseudo methods; that old msn page you could make easily, message boards, etc.

I remember a while back when we had that "create a job" contest for FFXI here on BG we used a type of wiki but I don't remember which one it was. Since I participated in it I have some experience (although I'll have to relearn but should be quick) and was curious if that wiki would work, if I could remember which one it was...

If not that one, whatever it was, any recommendations for which type of wiki? Free that is heh

inb4 make your own site

[6souls]

http://www.wiki-site.com/index.php/W..._Wiki_For_Free!

[Meian]

Thanks for the link but I noticed it can be edited by anyone. Is there a decent free one that can set who is allowed to edit it?

[sruon]

found this after a quick googling http://wiki.zoho.com/login.do?serviceurl=%2Fregister.do

2 free wikis with 50 mb space.

Easiest way would be just to get some webspace somewhere and installing your own.

[DAKPluto]

MediaWiki is pretty much the best out there. It's the wiki system that Wikipedia was built on.

[Meian]

Easiest way would be just to get some webspace somewhere and installing your own.

For a guy who has been around computers since as early as he can remember anything (DOS days yum yum), I have little knowledge when it comes to doing your own "webspace/webpage." The most I have ever done in the past was MSN Groups which was incredibly simple similar to Weebly. So I am really out of the loop when it comes to something more technical as this.

MediaWiki is pretty much the best out there. It's the wiki system that Wikipedia was built on.

I'd wager "installing" MediaWiki to sruon's idea was what was meant. Even then it is the same issue as I said above.

[Khamsin]

For a guy who has been around computers since as early as he can remember anything (DOS days yum yum), I have little knowledge when it comes to doing your own "webspace/webpage." The most I have ever done in the past was MSN Groups which was incredibly simple similar to Weebly. So I am really out of the loop when it comes to something more technical as this.



I'd wager "installing" MediaWiki to sruon's idea was what was meant. Even then it is the same issue as I said above.

I had no clues about wiki installations before, either, but I managed to install it fine on my laptop for testing some PHP stuff. You don't really have to know anything, just follow the instructions.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation

They make it so even your grandma could install it.

[Meian]

I had no clues about wiki installations before, either, but I managed to install it fine on my laptop for testing some PHP stuff. You don't really have to know anything, just follow the instructions.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation

They make it so even your grandma could install it.

My main concern regarding installation of this was everything prior to it.

Requirements

* Download MediaWiki (current stable version is 1.15.3)
* Web server such as Apache or IIS
o Local or command line access is needed for running maintenance scripts
* PHP version 5.1 or later (5.2.x recommended). PHP 5.3.1 is incompatible with MediaWiki due to a bug.
o with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
o with Standard PHP Library
* Database Server
o MySQL 4.0 or later
o or PostgreSQL 8.1 or later
+ Requires PL/pgSQL (contained in contribs)
+ Full-Text searching (Native in >=8.3, requires tsearch2 extension <=8.2)

Some users find it helpful to install an additional software package such as phpMyAdmin (MySQL) or phpPgAdmin (Postgres) to help administer the database server.

For image thumbnailing and TeX-support, additional programs are required.

This technical jargon is a bit new to me. I never ran Apache or IIS before