At 15:42 09/09/2009, you wrote:

After reading this thread, I figured it'd be worthwhile to set up a mediawiki instance to let people get familiar with it. I set one up last night on a node for my own enlightenment. The configuration is not "the best" by any means. For those interested in timeframe, it took thirty minutes to configure this instance from a clean arch linux installation. If you are interested in poking around in the environment to see what it feel like, go ahead, that's why I set it up. I disabled email registration, so anyone can just create an account and get a feel for creating pages / editing / preferences / etc... Tonight, i'm going to hack at creating my own skin, since it would just be cool :-) I added the amsat logo to the main page for testing, I hope this doesn't violate any copyright rules.... If it does, hollar and i'll remove it.

For the record, I have nothing to do with Amsat right now, outside of being a first time member this year. I also don't want anyone to think that i'm pushing for media wiki or anything of the sort. I just like the idea of having a wiki. I read the email thread and figured it'd be worthwhile to set an instance up so Amsat folk could get familiar with it. I have managed two other wiki systems on my own, trac / moinmoin. MediaWiki has quite a bit to offer and is reasonably easy to configure.

Here's a link to the playground:

http://71.43.22.149/

Let me know if you have any comments or questions (or if you get any weird behavior).

Thought I'd start this as a new thread. Just been on the Wiki, I think its a great idea. I added my comments in the discussion section just to get a feel for it. I'm not an Amsat-NA member, but non-the-less think I'm allowed to comment. I really hope this expands and becomes as useful as Wikipedia itself! John G4DMF