Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: How do you set up a wiki?

[Kristin Wells (cbuilderdd]

We use GoogleSites and it works pretty good. It's pretty user-friendly and
most of our members have been able to figure it out and use it on a regular
basis. We used to store documents on our google groups too, but there wasn't
a way to organize it. Sites is basically like a website and you can upload
documents to it. A great feature of it is that anyone can edit it and is
records when someone does this. You can also pull up any past iterations too
in case someone edits and you want to refer to an old copy. We have a 'page'
for each of our teams often will multiple subpages each.

Good luck!

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Moz <list [at] moz.geek.nz> wrote:

>
> Marty Maskall said:
> > But maybe a wiki would be better.  What do you think?  How do we set up a
> > wiki?
>
> The slightly technical approach: If you have a server (or an office
> computer that's always on) on site you can install it on that. I like
> MediaWiki, partly because you can download a pre-installed virtual
> machine with it already on. The advantage is that you control it, the
> disadvantage is that you have to control it.
>
> The easy way: search for a web hosting company that supports mediawiki
> and pay #3-$5/mo for them to do it. Then you just email everyone the
> URL and away you go. The downside is that you will probably want to
> approve the users, otherwise anyone can sign up and edit your wiki.,
> But a little administrative work by you and you can control who edits
> it and who can even see it (you can make it so that outsiders can only
> see the front page).
>
> I have no idea who these people are but this is where I'd start:
> http://www.google.com.au/search?q=mediawiki+hosting
> http://www.siteground.com/mediawiki-hosting.htm $4/mo
> http://www.maiahost.com/cms/MediaWiki_Hosting.html $2.50/mo
> http://www.dreamhostapps.com/free-mediawiki-hosting.html free!
>
> Moz
>
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