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coliver

@wirestyle22 said:

@coliver said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

We've used DokuWiki and MediaWiki but these days are using Sharepoint which is a wiki.

I'm thinking of using a Raspberry Pi as a Web Server for this purpose. It's just text documents.

Do you have a VM infrastructure?

I have a VM host server (ESXi) but I also have a Raspi 2 just sitting here. I'd rather use those resources for other stuff like a proxy etc.

The VM for this should only require maybe 1 GB of RAM and 20-40 GB of disk, and nearly zero CPU. Even if I had 100 r-pie's I'd still run this on my VM platform assuming I have the RAM and storage available.

heck, you can probably do less storage too.

Much less RAM as well. I think you could get away with 128 or 256MB.

wirestyle22

Done and done

scottalanmiller

@crustachio said:

We did a wiki for awhile but I was the only one in my department who could be bothered to actually use it (come on guys, Markdown is not that hard).

I feel your pain.

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scottalanmiller

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@aaronstuder said:

@Dashrender I want to categorize my articles by topic: (printing, blackberry, etc.)

In DokuWiki that would be namespaces. The only problem I've seen with categorizing in DokuWiki are people accidentally making a page in the root namespace, otherwise it's pretty simple.

Yeah, the namespace system adds a lot of complication for end users.