From Wsms

MediaWiki is the software you are looking at now.

Its homepage is http://mediawiki.org

Contents 1 installation 2 Why uses a wiki? 3 allowing file uploads 4 setting up another virtual host 5 stopping wiki spam 6 MediaWiki 1.12 install

installation

On linuxmint/ubuntu/debian refer to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Debian_GNU/Linux

I saved some notes about installing on Linuxmint Daryna at MediWiki/Linuxmint

I saved some notes about installing on Ubuntu server 9.04 at MediaWiki/Ubuntu

Why uses a wiki?

As this email from Linda K. below demonstrates, it seems that not everyone is convinced of the value of having their own wiki.

Hi George,

I took a look at some of the sites.

Can you explain how they work because they seem like typical websites.

How do you envision students using this as a tool in their preparation for college?

I will meet with some of the board members two weeks from now, and I want to be able to support the reason why we should consider using the site.

Is it just a basic site that I would decide which links would be applicable for the students and then you would design the site?

Get back to me at your earliest convenience.

Thanks,

Linda K.

Wiki's are basically a way for people to work quickly together to share information. You can use them in a variety or ways. For instance, you could use this wiki to share your meeting notes and track your organization's decision making process. Or, you could use it to develop your corporate manual among many authors. The only limit to is usefulness is the time you want to devote to it and your imagination.

Since is it public, I wouldn't recommend using it to keep track of sensitive information. --Ggeller 14:57, 28 May 2007 (PDT)

Here are some links that might give you a few ideas:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886141.htm Wikis' Winning Ways
http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331&pgno=1&queryText= How To Use Wikis For Business
http://www.science.smith.edu/resources/newsletter/wiki.html Why a Wiki?
http://www.keycontent.org/tiki-index.php?page=Wiki-based+Portal Using a Wiki as an Organizational Portal

allowing file uploads

Make sure the is a writable (by apache) directory at: $wgScriptPath/images
For this wiki, that turns out to be /var/www/wsms.wikiplanet.com/mediawiki/images. In you LocalSettings.php file set:

$wgEnableUploads       = true;

Don't forget the semicolon. No need to restart any servers.

setting up another virtual host

stopping wiki spam

http://www.iglu.org.il/wiki/index.php/Hamakor_Servers/MediaWikis_Spam_Fighting
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension

MediaWiki 1.12 install

Mediawiki 1.12 requires the php-xml package. Otherwise you get an error of: PHP Fatal error: Class ‘DOMDocument’ not found

On CentOS 5.1:

[root@hayes ~]# yum -y install php-xml
...
[root@hayes ~]# service httpd restart
...