Free wiki software

Hardly anyone who surfs the internet has not seen Wikipedia. Still many people are unaware of the etymology of the name. The term wiki was actually coined by Ward Cunningham in 1995 when he wanted to create a website for common programming patterns. He chose the word "wiki" which means fast in Hawaiian, a dying language. Ward's wiki was a big success and is still used today. Six years later Jimmy Wales started Wikipedia, which was actually a side project of Nupedia, which was supposed to be a serious encyclopedia written by professors and PhDs. Nupedia never reached a 1000 articles. Wikipedia is now in the top 5 of most visited websites.

So if you want to set up your own wiki, you can.

MediaWiki

Wikipedia is running solely on open source software. MediaWiki is the specific wiki platform that grew with Wikipedia. It's great software with some quirks. Say you want to for example run a private wiki, with MediaWiki your wiki has to be entirely private. Or entire public. You can hack your way around it but there will be leaks.

Dokuwiki

I'm personally not a fan of DokuWiki but it is very common software, and it's good if you want to have your wiki partly private.

Meteorpedia

Meteor is an awesome realtime JavaScript everywhere platform. It's not so great for SEO but it's the future. Meteorpedia is a wiki built in Meteor.

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Free wiki hosting

Wikis are great ways to structure knowledge together with other people. Wiki means fast in Hawaiian, which is for a reason. I've written a little overview of free wiki software, now it's time for free wiki hosting. Unfortunately spammers have also found ways to use wikis, mainly for black hat SEO linkbuilding purposes. This makes it pretty hard to keep a community wiki running.

Moneyless world

A moneyless world

A moneyless society is a very utopian idea. Nevertheless human beings were living in a world without money at some point in the past. According to Wikipedia money emerged already around 12,000 BC. Though the first coins have been created quite a bit later.

Give-away shop

give away shop

Are you looking for clothes, books, toys, pans or just something new to use? You could give it a try at a give-away shop, sometimes also simply called free shop. That's not a store in the traditional meaning, but a place to find free stuff.

Really Free Everything in London

Free London

Well, London is seeming to be the easiest place in the world to live in that I have lived in. Last year I lived in 16 countries in Europe and Africa. Every restaurant/cafe that sells boxed food has stock on its way. If they don't sell everything in the store they can't store it... it has to go out. So they leave these boxes of food in front of the cafe's in bin bags.

Free public transport

unused bike

In most places it's still a far stretch but there will be a day that public transport is freely accessible. In some cities it's already happening and for some people in some Western places, but free public transport is still something to work towards.