- This is a personal developmental wiki, it may often be in an unstable or experimental state and the lack of meaningful content on a page is often intentional; however, you can participate. Please: 1) create an account, 2) confirm your e-mail, 3) send Deirdre and e-mail telling her who you are and why you are interested. Thanks, --Deirdre(talk • contribs)
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About WikisThis site is a wiki, a collaborative website that can be easily edited via an ordinary web browser, like Firefox, by those who have been granted access. This wiki runs on the MediaWiki software engine, which is written in the php programming language, the same software as Wikisource, Wikipedia, and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. There are other wiki engines available. Another one you might be interested in looking at is MoinMoinWiki, which is written in the Python programming language. I have used both and I prefer the basic functionality of MediaWiki; however, I suspect that for those looking to get into the guts, MoinMoin is probably easier to modify, extend, or debug.
Because it looks neater, links to other MediaWiki wikis, particularly Wikimedia Foundation wikis, normally look just like internal links on this site, i.e. like this, just because a link looks like a local link, doesn't mean that it's on this site. Many text links may actually go to Wikipedia or Wikisource and many images that appear to be on this site may actually be hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Links to non-MediaWiki wikis and other websites normally will look like this - though you may find exceptions because this is an experimental wiki. Be warned and pay attention to the address bar. I won't intentionally take you somewhere dangerous but I can't be responsible for the content (including scripts) on other sites.
N.B. - This site has no affiliation with the Wikimedia Foundation, it only uses their MediaWiki software as its framework and, in the case of many images, it uses Wikimedia Commons as a file server. Although not affiliated with this site, I highly encourage you to take a look at the Wikimedia family of sites, particularly the Wikisource sites and Wikimedia Commons site, which contain many public domain reference materials.
