MediaWiki looks pretty amazing, and I think it will be replacing phpWiki for my personal use and for WordPress. There is a lot that can be learned from their extensive history and documentation of the development of the Mediawiki project. This is open source at its best.
Is there a way to lock it down so only 1 user (me) can make edits? I’d love to use this as a quick and dirty CMS for my website, but the idea of anyone breaking my site horrifies me.
I’ve been using MediaWiki for a Wiki project and though it has pretty good documentation in some parts, it fails in documentation on other parts. It is highly Wikipedia focused (of course it is) and that makes it IMO hard to change for a different project. Unfortunately there are very few good free Wiki scripts. It still needs something great like WordPress there 😉
I actually prefer pmWiki which is far more customisable and has much better documentation. It’s open source, and its only real disadvantages are that it uses flat file databases (instead of MySQL) and that I don’t know of any large-scale implementations of it. The fact that MediaWiki runs so well on a site like Wikipedia means it’s pretty scalable.
That was another problem with phpWiki, it was pretty taxing on the server. The WP wiki gets a pretty fair amount of traffic, so like you said the fact that it works for the Wikipedia was a pretty neat selling point. (Though they have some pretty monster hardware.)
Aaron, nice looking site there. I like what you’ve done with the menu.
Thanks. It’s still in heavy development, so much so that I decided to lock it down so no one sees it until I’m done. I’ll definitely let you know when I finish 🙂