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Hello World, I'm Stoulram! OwO!

This isn't really a wiki but more like a blog site for documenting my own personal life, various tips/tricks, and just sharing cool stuff :3

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• My First Discovery Flight
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• The Start: Beginning of 2020:
• Watching MLP
• SLARPG + Fastest Furs
• How I Became A Furry
• Traveling to furcons on non-rev standby
• Experience of Going to Furcons

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• How To Become Financially Independent
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• Antinatalism
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Am I Crazy For Wanting to Host my Own Wikipedia

We live in crazy times in the digital world. We now have internet, we have LLMs, NFT, crypto. Technology has been changing at a rapid rate and the way we share information has also changed over time.

But one of the core parts of the internet has still remained the same: To share information online.

Wikipedia started all the way back in 2001 and it still exists to this day. It's become a central hub for sharing information online sort of like an online encyclopedia. I remember there were so many times in school where teachers would say "Don't cite Wikipedia as your source" but it's still nevertheless remains a fact that it's one of the best way to get introduced to a topic.

Since then, so many Wikipedia clones have been built. Fandom, wiki.gg, WikiFur, etc. and they all rely on the same software called MediaWiki.

How I got into wikis

I've been contributing to internet communities for a long time. One of the core reasons why I got into Computer Science and Software Engineering is because I love to share information with others. I've always been interested in hearing other people's stories and sharing life experiences. And now we have such a great means of doing so over the internet.

I actually created this alt account because I wanted to get more involved with internet fandoms I've been involved with (without my employer and irl friends knowing lol).

I've been on-and-off with editing various fandom wikis and later wiki.gg and really passionate about sharing information about games online with the whole Internet.

Some wikis I've worked on in the past include:

- [1](https://slarpg.wiki.gg/)

- [2](https://slider.wiki.gg/)

- Wikifur

- slarpg.fandom.com

Why I'm Doing This

Interest in ActivityPub, Fediverse

- Mastodon, self-hosting

How I'm hosting this

I'm using LAMP stack for this and it's all self-hosted on my personal laptop at home. I have setup cloudflare tunnel to hide my real IP + namecheap domain to make it easy for people to find.

As for my laptop specs, here's the hyfetch UwU

This can all easily be archived and backed up

• Edmodo
• Groupme, Discord hard to archive

In fact here you go:

Why am I using MediaWiki if this is basically a blog

- I want to focus less on the coding aspect and more on writing

- Since I'm already so familiar with MediaWiki and syntax, I thought this would be a great option.

- Also wanted to challenge myself with hosting MediaWiki by itself since it's very customizable. - Gives me old Internet vibes - Why reinvent the wheel? There's great templates online for making your own blog page. But why should I reinvent the wheel when I can just do this? - I want this to be a living page where I can update it at any time. Also it's great for viewing past history and changes.

MediaWiki has been installed.

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Getting started

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language
• Learn how to combat spam on your wiki