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254 Chinese character that is critically important for the Fun Project. Second, MediaWiki is a collaboration and documentation platform that helps to collect and organize knowledge and make it available to people (Liginlal et al., 2010). It provides the collaborative editing function to facilitate the interaction between the docents and student participants of the Fun Project. Even though MediaWiki adopts open-source platform, it provides a secure environment for the Fun Project. With these resources available on MediaWiki, the project team could explore the best ways to support the project participants and to engage individuals from the wider communities (Poulter & Sheppard, 2020).

Besides selecting the best platform for this project, we also had to decide whether we should use a vendor-hosted solution versus a local-hosted solution. In terms of technical knowledge of the platform administrator, a vendor-hosted solution is less demanding and thus the platform can be setup in a comparative short period of time. Also, the platform provider takes care of the platform upgrade and data backup, which can be costly for a project with a limited budget. However, localhosted solution guarantees the long-term preservation of the data and service by making use of the technical and human resources of the hosting institution. It also facilitates the customization of the interface and searching function. The downside of a local-hosted solution is that it requires additional resources for supporting the technical requirement. Given that the Fun Project was a two-year project and there was no budget provision for technical support, it was a sensible decision to adopt the vendor-hosted solution in order to roll out the platform as soon as possible in view of its tight schedule. Also, MediaWiki development is backed by Wikimedia Foundation with strong financial support. It is very unlikely in the foreseeable future that there will be any development and maintenance problem with the codebase of Mediawiki.

Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki: Key Features

The aim of Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki is to preserve and make accessible materials on literary walk in all districts in Hong