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Would you upload pdfs and things like that to your mediawiki? Bills, invoices, paychecks, for example.

• Ninjaneered 8y ago
  I do upload pdfs including bills and invoices (not paychecks since I don't have a use case for that). My wiki is private so it's only available to me. Plus I have extensions that allow me to render the pdfs nicely and index all the text in pdfs for easier searching.
  • 4ad 8y ago
    I have both a public and a private wiki, but most of my PDFs are 5000+ page instruction set architecture monsters, so I much rather prefer to view them offline in some decent viewer instead of viewing them in the browser. I also have passports scans and other sensitive stuff. I don't trust that I can secure mediawiki well enough to put those in clear on the internet (in upspin they are encrypted with a local key and the storage is my own server, mediawiki is in the public cloud).
    • johntash 8y ago
      I've never actually heard of upspin before this thread. Their homepage doesn't give a clear view of what it actually does, but I'm looking over https://upspin.io/doc/overview.md https://upspin.io/doc/overview.md now
      • 4ad 8y ago
        This video is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLWEfi0Tkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLWEfi0Tkg
  • johntash 8y ago
    What do you use for indexing/searching pdfs? I didn't think about that even being a feature for something like mediawiki, but I guess that would make sense. One of the big features I like in Evernote is the ability to search pdfs and images. I have a lot of technical manuals that I save, along with receipts/etc that are easier to search for.