This page explains how to create your own wiki.
- Open any fedwiki page, perhaps a ‘Welcome visitors’ page. The wiki you create will be mounted on this same wiki-farm. - Edit the url so that the first section of the name (preceding ‘.federated.wiki’, ‘.fed.wiki’ etc - the ID of the wiki-farm) is the name of the wiki you intend to create. Hit return. - The server fails to find this wiki and offers to create it. (Just like, later, when you write a page link to a page that doesn’t exist, it offers to create it when clicked. That’s neat.) - You need to unlock (claim) this new wiki - the lock symbol in the bottom toolbar. It requires you to give a name for the owner of the new wiki (“your full and friendly name” says Ward Cunningham), an email address and an ID proof for that address. It offersTwitter and Google as ID proof options (!). - The lock should unlock, and the site is yours, your owner name appears in the toolbar. It offers a template for a ‘Welcome visitors’ page. In future when logged in you can spawn further sites from this one under the same ownership on the same wiki-farm, without doing the ID process again. - Sites can be viewed in edit mode (<wiki> ticked in the toolbar) or read only (unticked)