We write a lot about how things work here creating new sites for each subject area or nature of interest.
Tip: Search (below) will see all of these sites and any others in this tab's neighborhood.
We throw around a lot of terms when we talk about federated wiki that come from a variety of sources. Here we look at the sources and mention the most common names they provide.
Here we collect advice for operating wiki sites for others. Computers and networks vary so we stop short of step by step instructions. We report what has worked for us using the privileges available to system administrators.
We explain federated wiki plugins. We define their role interpreting content, recount our experience writing many, describe principles and strategies for future plugins, and offer a step-by-step guide for new plugin authors. We'll also collect pointers here to good plugins when they emerge.
Federated wiki is designed to be a growing, moving, sprawling thing that can outlive any advice that I might give here. But start somewhere we must.
These pages chronicle the founding Smallest Federated Wiki project and report its early achievements with a series of short screencasts.
This is our original help documentation. A link appears in the default welcome page. It's slower to be edited because it is bundled to be installed with wiki.