Running a wiki

[Gelion]

I'm wondering if anyone has or had an experience of running a wiki site?

There a quite a bit of "wiki"s around and from what I understand that both hosting and software is free to start them up. If one were to start what are the typical tasks one is expected to do?

What are the resources avaliable on the net?

Anyone with experience in that field, please share what you can on running a new wiki.

 

[PeteAtoms]

I think it depends on what your wiki is about. I have no experience using or running a wiki site, but I can imagine it being like a blog or website.

By that I mean you need to have regular updates to keep readers/users coming back. Wikis also seem to be aimed toward collaborative efforts, so having other contributors adding content to the wiki would help a lot. Community involvement is important.

Again, this is all my speculative guess. Google Sites offer wiki-style free websites. PBWorks and Wikia are wiki services I see around a lot too.

Starting and Running a Wiki Website

 

[Gelion]

Thank you! I'm thinking about starting a wiki on an old manga. Your links are a great start

 

[Perfection]

Are you sure one doesn't already exist?

 

[croxis]

I agree, see if there is one that already exists that you can help support. If there isn't then it is a good idea to start a new one.

 

[Gelion]

There's only one wiki on that manga, but it is plagued by spambots to the point that you can't read it.... I'd love to support something, but at the moment there's not much out there....

 

[plarq]

Great, one thing on my mind is to stop guest from posting, our dear CFC-OT wiki is dead in spam.

 

[croxis]

Mediawiki has an api, allowing authorized bots to crawl and help clean up spam, or flag pages.

 

[Gelion]

Mediawiki has an api, allowing authorized bots to crawl and help clean up spam, or flag pages.

Do you think this application is free out of the box?

 

[stormbind]

mediawiki has management features and you can lock down user editing.

I used mediawiki briefly for my expedition. It was supposed to allow remote updates from my blackberry. However, that blackberry drowned in the south china sea before I even had an internet connection

anyway, mediawiki has an installer and then you can check the admin pages and see what options are available to reduce spamming

 

[croxis]

Mediawiki is free, yes. You can try it out yourself using xampp: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html