The MOM Stack

The MOM stack provides a complete platform for collaborative knowledge work with integrated community engagement and intelligent assistance. MediaWiki serves as the core knowledge repository and collaborative editing engine, handling all document management, version control, and permission systems that our users depend on for shared content creation. Because MediaWiki operates as a stateless application layer, it integrates cleanly with our other components without requiring architectural compromises.

Ollama handles the intelligence layer, running a suite of open-source language models that power our real-time assistance features. Rather than relying on external APIs, Ollama runs locally across our infrastructure, providing semantic search over MediaWiki content, suggested edits, and automated summarization without the latency or privacy concerns of cloud-based AI. The models can be swapped and versioned independently of our main application.

Mastodon completes the stack by providing federated social discovery and community building around our knowledge base. Users can share articles, discuss edits, and build topic-specific communities directly from Mastodon, with ActivityPub integration allowing our MediaWiki instance to publish notifications and updates back to the broader fediverse. This creates a natural feedback loop where collaborative work in MediaWiki surfaces organically to engaged communities, and Mastodon discussions drive traffic and contribution back to the knowledge base.