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   2 title:  "Publishing My Technical Notes"
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   5 I've contributed to many sources of online documentation, but I've also built up
   6 about 300 pages of useful notes. I want to share more. I don't want to create
   7 yet another site and needlessly fracture documentation sources,
   8 so there are a lot of existing sites and sources I am going to be offloading to
   9 (emacs wiki comes to mind).
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  11 But I also have a vision of a site for material which doesn't fit well
  12 in existing sources, about any free software, and has some
  13 opionionatedness / style that official documentation does not generally
  14 afford. One very common and annoying practice of people who do good
  15 writing on technical topics is to use a blog or site which doesn't
  16 invite collaboration and improvement by others. So... I've started
  17 [ofswiki.org](https://ofswiki.org).
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  19 It's really easy to setup a basic Mediawiki instance. Of course, I had to geek
  20 out on it. That process became the [first
  21 page](https://ofswiki.org/wiki/Mediawiki_Setup_Guide).