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8 votes
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Native Hawaiians on coverage of Mauna Kea resistance
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British trophy hunters paying to shoot 100 puffins at a time during trips to Iceland
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission appeals against Kimberly-Clark flushable wipes court decision
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How Manchester United's pre-season friendly with Norwegian football team Kristiansund BK came about is scarcely believable
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Iceland's prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir talks climate change and gender equality over ice cream
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Finnish government plans to allow congestion charges in its cities
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Almost 1,400 people detained in Moscow in the largest crackdown on protesters in this decade
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Intersex liberation
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Dissecting A Dweet: Ring Weave ~ a 140 byte javascript animation
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Advice for starting a Wiki project
I am considering starting a wiki project for an academic niche. I've already started prototyping using Gitit, I've written a bit easy pages to get a feel for the software and am planning to start...
I am considering starting a wiki project for an academic niche. I've already started prototyping using Gitit, I've written a bit easy pages to get a feel for the software and am planning to start working on the most important page that summarises the topic itself, which I believe will help guide me to which pages to create first.
Now, here I'm asking for general advice to a newcomer n00bie wiki admin like me: what to expect, what software, etc. Any advice welcome, but I'll list a few questions below:
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What wiki software? I am liking Gitit, it is nice and easy to set up, and comes with its own server which I run with a systemctl user unit in the background. I tried Oddmuse but couldn't get it to work with a simple server; Ikiwiki setup is too clumsy for my liking (it friggin put stuff on my
$HOME
by default!); I want to avoid PHP stuff in general; I want a simple wiki that serves simple HTML pages. -
How to defend against spam? My plan is to keep it invite-only for as long as I can. IDK how to do that with Gitit yet.
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How to serve it securely and for cheap, once I decide to publish? It probably won't ever grow beyond a few dozens of megabytes in file size.
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How do you go about promoting a wiki?
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What peripheral services (issue tracker, mailing list, IRC/Discord/etc channels) go well with a wiki?
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What tools are available to ensure content quality (no plagiarism, enforce conventions, monitor changes, ...)?
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In Lebanon, Palestinians protest new employment restrictions
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The runner who makes elaborate artwork with his feet and a map
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Democracy's Dilemma: Democracies rely on free exchange of ideas and information, but that can also be weaponized. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—this?
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Deep in the interior of British Columbia, a temperate rainforest that holds vast stores of carbon and is home to endangered caribou is being clear-cut as fast as the Amazon
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European Speedrunner Assembly's Summer 2019 event is live!
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The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store
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The just transition for coal workers can start now. Colorado is showing how
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Goodbye, Alan Moore: the king of comics bows out
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Many US prisons deny Muslim inmates halal food and proper prayer
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Twelve people shot at Brooklyn event
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What was the most fulfilling thing you did this month?
As a respite from all the bad news floating around the internet, let's have some wholesome discussion! Whether it's major and minor, what was the best or most fulfilling thing you did this month?
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Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century
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The internet is rotting – let’s embrace it
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Heatwave threatens to accelerate ice melt in Greenland
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Over two hundred dead reindeer found on Norway's Arctic Svalbard
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has criticized Finland at a political event in Romania
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Subnautica: a world without guns | War Stories
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Classic Doom games vanish, reappear on Xbox One with features missing
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Europe’s cities weren’t built for this kind of heat
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Fifteen days of fury: How Puerto Rico’s government collapsed
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The roots of Boeing’s 737 Max crisis: A regulator relaxes its oversight
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World’s largest nuclear fusion experiment clears milestone: ITER on track to begin operations in 2025
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Small problem: An encounter with refugees and the legal system of Greece
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Passenger in clown suit prompted mass cruise ship brawl, say witnesses
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Study finds positive bias in human languages
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There's an underground economy selling links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other big news sites
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Digital authoritarianism and the threat to global democracy
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The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking
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Regal unveils bold unlimited movie ticket subscription plan
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