Talk:Sites using MediaWiki/Archived discussion from meta

Ideas for more Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia seems quite ideal for a project that would hold information on "prior art", i.e., a place that would collect known uses on technology, that would provide information for those who need to defend against patents. The main idea is that a central open place were everyone can record what they know would reduce the costs of finding such data. It can also serve those that don't want the monoplistic protection of a patent for their idea, but do not want others to register their idea as a patent, so they need a place to make their idea public that would not be as costly as a patent so that there would be evidence of "prior art" that would prevent anyone from obtaining a patent on the same idea.

The link at the bottom:

Wiki For You (http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?x=4229) - We can install and host your own wiki running WikiMedia software

Seems to be an advert is this allowed?


 * Seems useful to give hosting providers and there's already at least one other in the lists, so I created the hosting section and put those two into it. Jamesday 06:48, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I replaced redirect by "see", because of the disadvantages of inter-wiki redirects, see MediaWiki User's Guide: Using redirects.

See also en:Wikipedia talk:Sites using MediaWiki.

host for a mediawiki based wiki?
Can anyone direct me to a company that will help me set up and host a mediawiki based wiki? I've found some that run other wiki engines, but I prefer to stick with mediawiki. Ike9898 16:26, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Perhaps I could help you somehow - you can find mymail at http://portal.wikinerds.org Npc 00:21, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)