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[David Thornton]

I would also add that i've "lived with" Mediawiki for a while, through
various upgrades and server moves. It was simple and straightforward.

In a world of increasingly complex systems, a simple system is a joy.

David

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 4:02 PM Mike via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 2020-10-30 3:34 p.m., David Thornton via talk wrote:
> > 3. Mediawiki - my personal fav only because 1. OSS 2. plugable such
> > that I can get neat semantic stuff to work. I use categories a lot, I
> > use REDIRECT alot. I'm a firm believer in loose pluralism to start and
> > rigorous lexicography as time passed. I love that I can do a stand
> > alone server deploy of it, a two tier version, a containerized
> > version, a cloud version, or a massive scaled out version. I love
> > being able to do fancy semantic work in mediawiki. ( see
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki )
> >
> I second the semantic mediawiki plug.  My group still uses mediawiki
> pretty extensively despite having been told that we don't...
>
> We originally built a lightweight project management environment in it.
> We don't make much use of all that semantic power anymore, but even
> though our official documentation is elsewhere, the wiki is still our
> standard repository of shared (especially miscellaneous) knowledge.  I
> guess I would say that even though mediawiki is larger than many wiki
> implementations, it's nevertheless easy to deploy, and can grow
> enormously in complexity if you have the need.
>
> Mike
>
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