Forum:Can I hide the wiki that only I and those that I want can see it?

Is it possible to do this or am I on the wrong site for this? I'd like to create a personal wiki only I can see.


 * Not at Wikia. No. But why would you want a wiki to begin with? The idea of a wiki is to invite as many people as possible to contribute. If you want to be the sole contributor, then you don't need a wiki. And if you don't want anybody else to view your work, you don't even need a web site. --
 * The "more editors are good" concept is a Wikipedia/Wikia mantra. Like Pecoes, I happen to believe in it.    But it's not the only way in which the MediaWiki sofware can be used.  The software itself certainly has no such bias, unless you count the default setting of a couple of flags as a "bias".  The base software does have the ability to make your MediaWiki installation both invisible and private.  Wikia simply choose not to honor requests from people who want to change those flags.  But it's very easy to setup a totally private MediaWiki-based wiki.


 * One application I can see of a "single editor, single viewer" wiki is that of the personal diary. I can easily envisage using MediaWiki as a way to write a diary.  Or indeed a blog that works a little more relationally than something you'd get at WordPress.  Or maybe  you want to make a personal inventory of a collection of .  Or maybe you'd like to assemble a wiki offline so that it's more or less "complete" when viewers initially see it.  There are a ton of applications for the base MediaWiki software for which a community is not only unnecessary but undesirable.


 * If Omnibox truly wants his or her own "MediaWiki space", then he or she should simply go to mediawiki.org and download and install the software. It's pretty easy, actually, and it can be installed directly onto one's local machine, without ever making it onto the internet at all.  (It is certainly more usual, however, to install it on the web somewhere.)  In any event, do remember that Wikia is but one implementation of MediaWiki software.  And Wikia never run the latest version of the software, nor do they allow a particularly generous number of MediaWiki Extensions to be used here.


 * None of that should be taken to mean that I hate Wikia or that I think Wikia are wrong in their practices. But since Omnibox is going to have to go outside Wikia anyway to get what he or she wants, it's fair to put Wikia into a larger context.  17:13: Tue 22 May 2012