[inanutshellus]

I did the same thing and came away with a different opinion.

The MediaWiki server died and I had backups, but... literally no one in the family would've tried to resurrect it.

They knew I'd worked on genealogy for a while but I don't think anyone would've thought to rebuild a linux box covered in dust and somehow find an old MediaWiki install on it.

I should've made simple markdown files with images in an image directory and printed out copies. That's a legacy. A consolidated, easy to drag from grandpa's house and throw on a shelf and flip through, even in 2097.

[jjice]

Yeah, I think marked down files and a printed version ends up being a good idea. I've never worked with media wiki directly, but I wonder if you could do an easy nightly dump of markdown contents somewhere.

[bonoboTP]

You may like DokuWiki. It's a wiki you can browse and edit in a browser but stores its data as human-readable files, not in a database.