MediaWiki

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MediaWiki is open source server wiki-project written in PHP that is used by Wikipedia and IndieWebCamp.com.

MediaWiki uses MySQL for primary storage.

Contents 1 Why 2 IndieWebCamp Customizations 3 IndieWeb Examples 3.1 Tom Morris 4 Other Independent Examples 4.1 Friend of GWG 5 See Also

Why

The IndieWebCamp community uses MediaWiki as a collaborative document editing tool, to capture "what is the current state of something", to make it easier to reference answers, definitions, how tos, etc.

MediaWiki just happens to have better persistence / search discovery than alternatives that are equivalently community accessible (E.g. Etherpad, Google Docs, both of which have the js;dr problem and neither of which are search engine indexed.)

See also:

• FAQ: Is there an IndieWeb mailing list?
• Wiki is better than email

IndieWebCamp Customizations

• See mediawiki-customization

IndieWeb Examples

Tom Morris

Tom Morris uses MediaWiki on his personal site wiki at: http://wiki.tommorris.org/

Other Independent Examples

Friend of GWG

David Shanske has setup MediaWiki for a friend as a private thing and maintains it for them.

See Also

• wiki-projects
• mediawiki-customization
• how to edit this wiki