On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:38:27 +0300, Marc Colbeck marc@colbeck.ca wrote:
I'm interested in chatting with someone who has set up a wiki site.
The MediaWiki mailing list is best for this, since that is aimed at people using MediaWiki on their own sites. See http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l to subscribe.
I don't know a lot about how to get the software onto a server, how to work at the administrative level with it (ie creating pages, etc) and how much time/work is involved.
There are a lot of wiki hosting companies that would do this for you. There's a list at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wiki_Science:How_to_start_a_Wiki#.22Hosted_wiki.22_and_Wiki_hosts
I'd like to get back to my dream of a website by paramedics for paramedics. The wiki software looks just perfect for that, however, I wouldn't mind being able to have some banner ads to help cover server costs.
You can download the software from http://mediawiki.org and customize the skin to add adverts if you want since it is open source. However, I would recommend that you consider putting your content at Wikibooks instead. There are already a number of medical books at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Medicine. See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Emergency_Medicine for example.
Angela