Hosting your own wiki
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Revision as of 13:40, 17 January 2011 by Caseorganic (Talk | contribs)
Here's a link to sign up for Dreamhost where you can install MediaWiki really easily.
Summary: Dreamhost is a hosting company. It will cost less than $100 per year to register a domain and for the hosting. MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia and many other wikis. This is free software and can be installed on any server After you install MediaWiki, you'll have to edit the LocalSettings.php file to prevent people from registering accounts. You can read more on the MediaWiki documentation pages.
Here are some wikis made with MediaWiki: http://cyborganthropology.com http://geoloqi.org http://aaronparecki.com http://caseorganic.com/projects/ http://cpwebtool.org
