OT: best FOSS wiki for this classroom scenario?

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 16:34, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One way to run MoinMoin on your computer is by installing it from the
> Ubuntu package manager and using the Apache web server to host
> and access it. An alternative is to run it is as a Desktop Edition by
> downloading it as a tar.gz archive, unpacking it to any location you
> like (including a USB stick), and using localhost to host and access
> it. This gives you a personal, completely portable, stand-alone wiki.
>
> Back when I first encountered it years ago, MoinMoin was one of the
> only wikis that could be accessed via localhost and the other wiki
> was going under. Other wikis could also be used as personal wikis,
> but were dependent upon a separate server installation. It was the
> complete portability of MoinMoin that won me over.
>
> Long after I had familiarized myself with how to do things in the
> Ubuntu wiki and no longer needed a portable sandbox version of
> MoinMoin to experiment in, I kept it and have continued to use it for
> archiving and cross-referencing all sorts of information.
>
> There's some basic information on the Desktop Edition on the
> http://moinmo.in/DesktopEdition page. Neither that page nor the
> related links at the bottom go into quite enough detail to give you a
> seamless initial experience, though. I've created a "MoinMoin Wiki
> Care and Feeding.pdf" document that I use as a reference for
> configuring, using, and maintaining the wiki. It's not currently
> shared it online, but I'd be happy to put a copy of it up on my blog
> for anyone who's interested in trying this wiki and wants a
> hassle-free introduction to it.

I see. I understand now. Thanks for the explanation.

Personally I am struggling to imagine how I *myself* might find this
useful but I can certainly is a powerful tool.

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