It started as just a personal wiki for me to revise from. But then it expanded outwards and upwards, and got its own subdomain – revision.aorkwa.com. A little DokuWiki installation so I could share and collaborate on revision notes. But now it has become wikiRevision – a brand new home for collaborative revision notes.
Built on the same foundations as Wikipedia itself, the open-source MediaWiki software, wikiRevision hopes to offer notes specifically targeted to those taking one particular course. At the moment, obviously, it will only contain notes for courses that I’m studying, but the open nature of the website means that anyone can contribute and help others on their course – as well as providing themselves with a set of notes “in the cloud”: you won’t lose your revision notes when they’re stored on the wikiRevision server.
It has provided me with an interesting look at the MediaWiki software, and building themes on it. At the moment the site is running a beta theme that I crafted by modifying the famous MonoBook theme that Wikipedia uses – I’m currently working on getting a slightly better theme made up for the site.
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