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Wikis and notepads and text files, oh my!

October 16, 2009

The other night, @verso tweeted a ques­tion about run­ning a lit­tle wiki on a home file server.  I responded with Tid­dly­Wiki, which is a whole wiki con­tained in a sin­gle HTML file.  It actu­ally may or may not ful­fill her needs, since there are huge con­cur­rency and remote access issues — it’s designed to be […]

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The Office Wiki Stored in my iPhone

March 4, 2009

Yester­day, I was look­ing for a way to carry around a local copy of a wiki on my iPhone.  It seems that there are sev­eral apps that let you carry around an offline copy of Wikipedia — in case you are stuck on an air­plane or out of cell­phone range and need to look something […]

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wgFileCacheDirectory

January 31, 2007

Note to future self (and to any­one else who may be set­ting up a high-traffic[1] Medi­aWiki server at some point):
In the­ory, all you need to do to enable caching, which greatly improves per­for­mance is to add the fol­low­ing lines to LocalSettings.php.  Every­thing is very well doc­u­mented to rein­force that this is what you need to do.

$wgShowIP­in­Header = […]

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