OT: best FOSS wiki for this classroom scenario?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Liam Proven wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 12:32, Karl Auer wrote:
>>
>> It doesn't have to run as a "server", it can run as a standalone
>> desktop application. Like a wordprocessor or whatever. You run it
>> and a wiki window appears, you add pages, edit pages and so on,
>> and when you are done you close it and it's gone until next time.  
>
>Ohhhh-kaay. I think.
>
>But then who can see the contents? Are they not "published" anywhere?

They're available on localhost by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8080/ or
http://localhost:8080/ (or some other port number if you configured
a different one when setting up the wiki) in any browser.

>If it's for your eyes only then why not just use a text file or 2?

You can do that. Your ability to tag or cross-reference the
information in your text files is limited only by whatever method you
happen to use at any given time to access them.

The biggest advantage of a wiki is its ability to manage, present, and
cross-reference information. With a wiki, you can have one or more
glossaries, you can tag pages, you can create sub-pages (namespaces),
you can create and use templates, etc, etc., etc. A wiki provides
styling that's not available in text files, like headers, lists,
tables, colorization, images, etc., much like a word processor. The
data can also be presented one page at a time or listed by category
or name. You also have the ability to search the page titles or
contents.

Last, but by far not least, if the wiki stores all of its information
in plain text files (the way that MoinMoin does), then the files can
be accessed with grep or any other search tool that's used for
regular text files, so the data is always available to you whether the
wiki is running or not. Not only that, but if the wiki software stops
working entirely one day, all of your information is still available
to you as plain text.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.