Anyone here have any ideas how to go about creating a wiki for myself?

I could do with a ready made one to organise my stuff, rather than having to program one for myself, is there any code out there?

Cheers!


Oh, I should add, Im looking for one I can download onto my own machine, rather than a purely web based one.

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Anyone here have any ideas how to go about creating a wiki for myself?

I could do with a ready made one to organise my stuff, rather than having to program one for myself, is there any code out there?

Cheers!


Oh, I should add, Im looking for one I can download onto my own machine, rather than a purely web based one.
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What exactly would you like on it? Got any examples you have found that you like. I'm happy to have a go and create one that you can edit yourself just been a while since I made one. Only thing is downloading it to your PC as a page may not be possible, due to the code used on wiki. I haved tried but been unsucessful so far. Just give me links to your current page and ones you like and I'll see what I can sort out for you.

Swampy and Ricster are both quite into Wiki, although i think Ric might be your current mortal enemy, im sure he would help you though with any advice.

A Wiki needs PHP to work, so for a local machine you'd need need to run a web server on it.

http://www.apache.org/
http://uk3.php.net/get/php-5.2.5-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/php4install.shtml

Basically I'm looking to get my current work organised in an easy to reference way. My machine is already a php server, so thats no problem.

I just want it to be a blank bit of source code that I can download then add my own stuff to, as I have a load of word documents containing stuff like testing plans, speech corpora details etc. Ill make one myself if need be, I was just hoping there would be some code out there already.

And I appear to have many many mortal enemies, no idea why people seem to dislike me so!

Private or public?

Private: as EastFootball said, you need a Web server with PHP. Read this page and follow the instructions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation

Public: http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia, takes five minutes, run by profiteer extraordinaire Jimbo Wales (the guy who founded Wikipedia), open to the world, google ads on it.

Cheers for everyones suggestions and help! I did some searching around and came up with a perfect one I missed earlier...Blade Wiki!

Bah!


Ok, yes, xbl, you have annoyed me with some of your comments, but as this is a case of tech support I will forgo any usual banter and ask...

"Just what is the data you are storing?"

Wiki's are really only useful for a 1 to many relationship between data and editor. If you are the one that is going to edit everything then to be honest a standard CMS (Content Management System) may be the better option. As I am sure you are aware (considering you mention that you have the machine set up serving PHP which in turn generally means you are running Apache, Tomcat or Lightptd, you sound like you have knowledge - unless you are running PHP through IIS in which case it's not a case of knowledge but a case of madness!) there are numerous CMS' that run on PHP.

I see you chose Blade over the others, but here is an interesting link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software

Now there is also another really nice, non server (all client side using JS/XML/XSLT) wiki which I keep on meaning to rip off duplicate while offering credits that I can't remember the name of. I'll post it if I remember it, but it would suit a non-commercial, personal use, wiki structure. Although as I say, numerous CMS' out there.

Ive got an Apache server set up on here, although to be honest, its that long since I actually touched any of the stuff that I'd be starting again from scratch.

Its really just my thoughts and notes for quick reference, Blade does exactly what I want, and it means I dont have to fanny about with anything. Plug in and go.

Cheers for the advice anyway, oh (apparently) mortal enemy of mine!