Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24922135-20171021002325/@comment-24253265-20171023194210

JustLeafy wrote: create your own personal wiki and don't try promoting it Slightly reworded, of course external links or interwiki links to, say, wikipedia, won't work while you are offline, but otherwise your personal wiki is hosted on your personal box (laptop, smart phone, whatever), and as admin of this box you decide if it can be reached at all from other boxes. See firewall as an example for an interwiki link ;-)

If it can be reached you are by definition the server admin and can decide which services/files/... are visible or even writable by others. Invisibility by obscurity doesn't work, googlebot (example) will index everything it can see, unless you forbid it in a robots.txt (cf. mediawiki magic word ).

For a personal wiki with one user everything related to chat, forums, boards, message walls, talk pages, or mediawiki Flow (their idea of discussions) should be irrelevant. If you don't like PHP or don't know what it is mediawiki is not for you, try something simple like Trac, or drop the wiki idea, and check out markdown.