This wiki runs Oddμ, also known as Oddmu.
The Oddmu documentation is in a separate subdirectory of this site. This page is my Oddmu blog.
A wiki is a hypertext collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience. In this case, that is just me. 😃
All these sites are pretty similar, in essence. Blog, micro-blog, digital garden, Zettelkasten, wiki, there’s not enough difference to draw lines. It’s all a question of intent, of culture, of belonging. The blog spirit is to write pages over time, and they disappear into the archive. The micro-blog spirit is to add a character limit to blog posts. The digital garden spirit is to write unfinished articles and papers, to be refined or not. The Zettelkasten spirit is to follow the trail of thoughts you thought and add new branches, small notes with new thoughts leading to more thoughts on new notes. And the wiki spirit is to write and edit online, to hit the Save button and then it’s live. There is no editor, there is no draft. Wiki is like brutalism in content management. I can see the page sources and the end result is obvious and full of that old web power. It’s not an app. The software has no idea of process. The wiki spirit is to open that window, write the text and hit Save. And then I read it again, and edit it. And tomorrow, I read it again, and edit it. And next week, perhaps, I read it again, and edit it.
It's the simplest, most bare-bones way to write hypertext that I can think of: visit a page, click the edit link, there's the text, there's where you put the words, save, and – bam! – it's live. That's the essence of it. That's what Oddmu is about.
This ease of use and this freedom brings with it some responsibility: there is no user interface to guide the writer, no software to help organize the pages, no review process to ensure quality.
Oddμ is a minimal wiki because it doesn't have the features many wikis have.
I think I like it! 😄
Use a traditional web-server like Apache as a reverse proxy and add access control at that level, if your site is public.
Oddmu can also be used as a static site generator.
There are RSS feeds and there is fediverse account linking. I do this a lot, both to acknowledge how creativity is rooted in conversation and to make a statement against corporate social media.
At first I thought the wiki didn't need a dedicated wiki link syntax (using double square brackets) but currently I'm on the fence. I added the feature and now I'm using it far less than I thought. As implemented, it doesn't treat spaces as underlines and therefore `[[foo bar]]` and `[[foo_bar]]` link to two different pages.
I use Markdown Gopher to serve the same files via Gopher and I use Patched Satellite to serve the same files via Gemini. It's my finger pointing at the moon: alternatives to the web do exist.
The text and the code go hand in hand has more examples of how other people have built their own software for their sites.
The text and the code go hand in hand
Blog posts:
2025-01-11 Personal blogging platform
2024-09-29 Configuring Oddμ via environment variables
2024-08-18 Indie search for Oddmu
2024-07-23 Eglot for Go, Perl and Markdown
2024-07-21 What was hard about the Oddμ architecture?
2024-03-06 Oddμ beta program for Campaign Wiki
2024-02-09 Oddμ namespaces and live updating
2024-01-19 Serving Oddμ via a socket
2023-12-09 Uploading photos to Oddμ
2023-09-17 How to index pages for Oddμ
2023-11-09 Sanitize HTML and SVG?
2023-10-28 Oddμ is opinionated software, or bloated
2023-10-17 Writing pages offline, some of the time
2023-10-10 Oddμ, the original idea
2023-10-09 Recent Changes is back
2023-10-08 Phoebe lessons learned for Oddmu
2023-10-07 Oddmuse lessons learned for Oddμ
2023-10-01 An overview over the Oddmu man pages
2023-09-20 Generating forward indexes for Oddμ
2023-09-19 Adding fedi account linking to Oddμ
2023-09-16 Adding a wiki syntax
2023-09-14 To manually curate a feed
2023-09-11 Oddμ memory comparison