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I have my digital garden as a mediawiki-based website which is only accessible within my home network (and my vpn). It runs on a small (yet capable!) computer
by znpy 4y ago
I have my digital garden as a mediawiki-based website which is only accessible within my home network (and my vpn).
It runs on a small (yet capable!) computer in the corner of my living room.
It's lovely because mediawiki is just great, and I share that garden with my SO.
Among the niceties, I have collected the PDF manuals for the various appliances that we bought over the years, and there's a nice template to embed the pdf into a wiki page. No need for wondering where that instruction manual is today.
Taking tech notes works very well too, because mediawiki can display math just fine (mathjax and stuff) and can highlight code in a decent amount of languages.
Oh, and galleries look beautiful in mediawiki. And the template (the Timeless skin) looks nice on mobile too.
The editing experience is nice, now that VisualEditor is built-in into MediaWiki.
After two years and a couple hundred pages, it only weighs about ~350 megabytes.
I'm thinking about making a public version, as a personal website.
Notes:
- i'd love to have the ability to install an equivalent of the mobile app for my private wiki.
- the computer is a fujitsu esprimo q520 (core i5-4590T 4c4T, 16GB ram, 250gb main ssd + 1tb data ssd + 4TB backup external magnetic disk).
- fsiefken 4y agoI'd would export your mediawiki into zim format and then access that one with a mobile client like kiwix https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Mediawiki_offline_content#Kiwix https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Mediawiki_offline_content#Ki... https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/ https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/
- znpy 4y agoFor reading the usual theme is fine.. the problem is editing. I’d like to be able to edit on mobile too, but in a comfortable manner.