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MediaWiki hasn’t been sufficiently developed and renovated over time to blame the PKM community for not using it. The most recent one I set up was in 2020, and

MediaWiki hasn’t been sufficiently developed and renovated over time to blame the PKM community for not using it. The most recent one I set up was in 2020, and it made me sad to see how annoying and ugly it was out of the box compared to contemporary tools. Sad because it has enormous utility but it hasn't done the work to help users and developers want to access it. I’ve been following MediaWiki development since about 2005 and have contributed to it, so I’m part of the problem.

sureglymop 4y ago
I recently set it up. What I disliked was that it was hard to get pre-built extensions (there was some kind of dynamically generated link to get an extension). I wanted to build a docker image that has my mediawiki build but it ended up being too tedious and the extensions which needed db schema changes scared me a bit in this endeavor. I wish it was just a single binary, a config file and a directory to put in extensions. I like the new mediawiki ui though, a lot of people don't seem to but i think it's nice. I just wish it was responsive and mobile friendly. It's quite crazy that I need an extension to make the platform display correctly on mobile devices.