On 11/02/16 01:26, Derek Hohls wrote: > I am very curious as to why people would even want to install a wiki > on their own machines (Windows or otherwise). > > To me, the main benefit of a wiki is that it is a shared repository of > knowledge to which everyone has access. Such a wiki would be installed > and maintained by the IT support team (or local guru, perhaps) on a > server. Access is then as simple as "open your browser"! No barrier > to entry at all. >
Agreed. However, I have in the past run a local instance of JSPWiki precisely for private project documentation and note taking, and it worked fantastically well. I've occasionally thought that for folks who did want to run a full wiki locally on their machine but with zero technical know-how, it surely wouldn't be too much of a stretch to take something like Siegfried Goeschl's Wiki on a Stick (https://github.com/sgoeschl/jspwiki-on-a-stick), and bundle it into a self-contained Windows/DEB/whatever installer which when executed installs a sandboxed instance in Jetty or something. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Koelmeyer http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz GPG Key ID: 0x238BFF87
