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I needed a Wiki for my school assignments so that my group mates and I can work on the same thing together quickly and we all can see the most up-to-date result always and immediately. Saves us the hassle of emailing bloody MS Word attachments back and forth. Actually it’s more of a shared whiteboard for brainstorming rather than the end result paper for submission, so we still need to “convert” and clean up the result to a word processor somehow, I reckon that’s the easy part.

Anyway, I have always liked MediaWiki, however, it was a bitch to install at the time, so I decided to use PhpWiki for linux.or.id Wiki. So I took a quick look at the MediaWiki website to see how it has changed since then, and it turned out that installing just got much easier, so I gave it a try. It definitely is easy to install, configure, and use now. Feature-wise it kicks PhpWiki’s ass. In case you don’t know, MediaWiki is the engine behind Wikipedia, the number one open online encyclopedia.

Next up: converting the linux.or.id wiki from PhpWiki to MediaWiki. I could swear I’ve seen a guide on how to do this, but I couldn’t find it now. (If you have the link please post in the comments section. Thanks.)