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Introduction

I've been managing the MediaWiki at my work for some time. I didn't appreciate it at first because I enjoyed the convenience of tools like Simplenote, Notion, and Google Docs. But I've come to love the service in terms of being able to get a large amount of information publicly to my team (in this case, the world).

Perks

After working with HTML markup with my website and having to use a workflow where articles are first written in Simplenote and then copied to HTML, MediaWiki streamlined the process well. I can write, edit, and present all in one place. Side effect is having a part of my website that doesn't carry the same CSS, but I'll live with that. It's also a place where I can play with extensions and configurations without tinkering with my team's wiki.

Organization

One of the reason I wanted to create my own instance of MediaWiki is to decide on my own best practices for me and my team. Part of that is deciding whether I want to adapt to Wikipedia's philosophy of no external links in the main body of the wiki. That sounds like a noble goal, not one that is true for my team's wiki, one that I will strive for here. I also want to strive for no orphaned pages for whatever I write--every page can be traversed to from this page.

Citations

Something that the MediaWiki framework does well is citations. I'm hoping to use this as a place to organize research notes and be able to link back to the source.

Content

One of the aims of the wiki is to condense my Random Thoughts so that it can evolve. I also want to include Random Computing Tips.

Related Links

• Bonfire Star (Home)