How to go about self hosting a wiki of repair guides?
3 years ago by Boring to c/selfhosted
I have a little side business of doing minor repairs on phones and tablets and such.
I was wanting to host a wiki on my network with ifixit guides for the common devices I work on just in case my internet access goes out.
I host a lot already but I'm not sure how to go about getting the data to upload to the wiki?
Has anyone else done a similar thing?
Don't Louis Rossmann launched a repair wiki a while back?
Anyway, mediawiki wikis have a special page that lets you dump the wiki's contents for migration purposes, but I forgot whether it's locked to admins only.
Edit: here's a publicly accessible export page: https://repair.wiki/w/Special:Export
I recommend using Kiwix, https://kiwix.org/en/
They already have a monthly archive of ifixit available: https://library.kiwix.org/...
There are tons of other offline resources available for Kiwix as well https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng
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Why not contributing the guides on ifixit and just keeping local copies? You can at least save a pdf copy?
How often will your internet go out? You could also cosnider an archiving solution for visited pages. Archivebox comes to mind.
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