Babble

I’ve got a wiki installed on one of my servers which I use as a store for all those little bits of information that I pick up. They’re great for just banging text into and then cross referencing it.

I’ve got the MediaWiki installed. It’s the one used to power the Wikipedia. It’s a doddle to install (you’ll be up and running in 5 minutes) and really easy to use. It uses MySql as the backend which isn’t hard to get hold of. I’m running Ubuntu so it’s just a case of running apt-get.

It’s got a lot of editing features which can be a bit daunting at first, but once you pick up the basic markup tags you’re off and running. There’s a wiki (well duh!) that covers everything you need to know.