QUOTE(WikiWatch @ Fri 8th January 2010, 4:14am)
QUOTE(wikademia.org @ Fri 8th January 2010, 4:28pm)
you do know about Encyc.org, right?!
I don't think Encyc.org will challenge wikipedia anytime soon. All their articles are basically one to two sentence stubs.
I disagree, but...
MediaWiki installation is not user-friendly at all. But don't be intimidated, it's not quite as bad as the documentation makes it seem. The key is to do as much as possible yourself, so when things go wrong you have a fighting chance to fix them and aren't relying on tech support.
My recommendation is to keep everything as similar to Wikipedia as possible. So if Wikipedia makes your pages look like
http://encyc.org/wiki/Example, you make it that way. The same goes for encoding choices.
Once you're finished, you'll be wondering why you thought it was such a big deal the whole time.
Thanks to Wikipedia's ever increasingly complex code and template obsession, easily sharing free content is a thing of the past. Most imports have to have a good amount of human TLC before they'll look right. (Encyc is trying to fix this situation. Feel free to stop by and give us another chance.)
Setting up your own wiki encyclopaedia
