Federated Wiki

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Wiki resources

I had a collection of links on wikis, thought I would collect them here:

Tom Critchlow – Building a Digital Garden: How I built myself a simple wiki using folders and files and published using Jekyll (his personal wiki)

I liked this article because it makes it possible to have a wiki without a database

Tom Critchlow – Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens – Building personal learning environments across the different time horizons of information consumption

Tom gives Twitter, blogging, and wikis as his examples for his title, also references the article below.

Mike Caufield – The Garden and the Stream: A TechnoPastoral

This 2015 article compares and contrasts wikis and blogs, with a focus on Federated Wiki (created by Ward Cunningham)

Frank McPherson – Site index page for his instance of Federated Wiki (also, his page on setting up Federated Wiki on your laptop)

Andy Sylvester – My instance of Federated Wiki (my New User Setup page)

Rudimentary Lathe – Jack Baty’s hosted instance of TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki – Main site to download your own copy

Chris Aldrich – Summary of Indieweb pop-up session on The Garden and The Stream (includes notes and video)

 

Knowledge wiki examples

Chris Aldrich posted about an interesting knowledge wiki using Github as the storage of the original content and using Gitbook to render the content. I have a federated wiki instance I have been using for some topics. Chris Aldrich also mentions that his own site serves as a commonplace book, capturing information that interests him. I think this variety of tools and practices is good to see. I have used a weblog in the work environment as a knowledge capture tool, then migrating some content to a wiki. My main observation is a common one: you get out of it what you put into it. If you don’t do much, any tool you use will not be very helpful. If you contribute content on a regular basis, the value will grow and grow over time. Which will you choose?

Doing a local install of Federated Wiki

Earlier this week, I installed the latest version of NodeJS and NPM (https://nodejs.org/en/) . I am going to try to install wiki on my Windows laptop.

Per this page (https://www.npmjs.com/package/wiki), I started Node.js command prompt and entered the following command:

npm install -g wiki

I then opened a browser tab and went to http://localhost:3000 and was able to see the Welcome Visitors page:

To be able to see the journal icons and be able to make edits, I clicked on the word “wiki” at the bottom of the page. After doing that, I saw a check mark appear next to the word, and I was able to make and save edits. It still looked like there is a yellow background to the pages. In the past, I thought that meant that changes would not be saved, but I will need to look into that more.

Next steps – look at getting wiki source code and running that so I can make local changes.