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Federated Wiki - node server as npm package

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I recommend you try Federated Wiki [0]. To test out its editing process: 1. Go to: http://fed.wiki.org/view/how-to-wiki 2. Once you're there, click the "wiki" word down in the…

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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jimbosis·Apr 20, 2022Recommendation phrase

I recommend you try Federated Wiki [0]. To test out its editing process: 1. Go to: http://fed.wiki.org/view/how-to-wiki 2. Once you're there, click the "wiki" word down in the grey footer. A checkmark will appear next to the word "wiki." 3. Double-click a paragraph and edit. Ctrl-s saves. The page you edited will gain a yellow halo. The yellow indicates that your changes are only being saved in your browser's local storage for now. (If you have your own site and are logged in, changes will be saved on the server.) I run my own Federated Wiki (fedwiki) server. You can also just run it locally (which I do sometimes). It requires nodejs. I was a bit fussy with my server setup and have lighttpd as reverse proxy (I think that's the correct terminology) and 'supervisor' as nodejs babysitter, but most (all?) of that is not strictly necessary; fe

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dwiki can just run on its own. [0] https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki EDIT: Clarity.

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