History of this wiki
From emboxit
Contents
Why
I am working since years in many and different kind of projects:
- Professional
- Hobby
- Principles
- Proof of concept
- Technology evaluation
- Mechatronic
- Electronic
- Mechanical
- Software
- Firmware
- Logistics
- Bill of Materials
- ...
- My targets:
- I needed a web-based easy to create and maintain platform, capable of supporting many and divert projects.
- I could not afford to become an HTML, or Web-applications or any kind of expert.
- I wanted to update the content any time from anywhere
- The site was not for public use neither for customers
- The users would be myself and a few persons I work-with
- Collaboration support with co-workers
- I wanted this site to become a knowledge-base and documentation-base, for all my past, present, and future projects
Inspired
Inspired by:
- Mediawiki based WIKIs like below:
- The nice clean precise an relaxed look and feel of (Mediawiki-based) Wikipedia
- The ability for collaborative development of the WIKI and the included projects
Server Hosting
I had decided to create mediawiki based WIKI, to document, present and organize the projects.
The easiest way seemed to be: turnkey-mediawiki live CD Turnkey_MediaWiki
But taking in account:
- Mediawiki should be installed to a dedicated (server) PC.
- The WIKI would not be alive in the internet, but only at local network
- The effort needed to connect the local server to internet, and the limited bandwidth
I started thinking of hosting to a free server.
- Day 1
- Using Google search with keywords [mediawiki hosting], I found 3 options:
- wikkii and referata have the known look and feel of mediawiki/Wikipedia.
- wikia looks different, it is more organized and has advertisements.
Referata
- At 2nd day I discovered that at referata:
- I can use WYSIWYG editor, so I do not need openoffice+extension how to use openoffice to write mediawiki text
- The configuration options (site-settings...) are more.
- Still at 2nd day, 3 projects already documented.
- Day 3
- Updating
- Small or Large Pieces of Work can be done every day from any internet connected computer.
- Contact with the projects is already increased
