Experimental Publishing Compendium

tool

MediaWiki

Description

Collaboration and publishing platform used to run Wikipedia. Easily adaptable to monograph publishing and can incorporate a range of rich digital media: installation of extensions and widgets allows video and audio from a range of sources.

Developer

Wikimedia Foundation

Software license

GPL-2.0 License

Software language(s)

PHP

Project page

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Code repository

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki

Output formats

HTML

Platform status

actively maintained : last GitHub commit on 2025-05-25

Tools

wiki-to-print

wiki-to-print is a continuum of projects built around the idea of a collective publishing environment based on MediaWiki software, Paged Media CSS...

Books

Code Version 2.0

2006, Lawrence Lessig

Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace was published in 1999. The book quickly began to define a certain vocabulary for thinking...

hybrid publishing systems

2023, Alexander Roidl and Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

hybrid publishing systems is a compilation of essays and research that readers can compile into a personal publication and print at home. There...

Living Books About Life

This book series published by Open Humanities Press ‘repackaged’ previously published open access content into curated edited collections. The...

Practices

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Rewriting

Rewriting involves the practice of re-envisioning an already existing text without (necessarily) intervening into the original source text. It...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...