Yes, MediaWiki can be installed multiple times in different directories using either the same database with a different set of table prefixes (configurable upon install) or using different databases altogether. Additionally, you may want to make some settings common for all the installations, and have a central place where changes to these can be made. Since the configuration file (LocalSettings.

How to install more than one wiki on a single server, using the same source code, and using the same database (v1.5.1, May 2006)

You use a different database prefix for each wiki (for Postgres, you can achieve a similar effect by using different schemas and users) For information on an alternative way of setting up more than one wiki using the same server, database and source, see Steve Rumberg's excellent expose and additional comments from users. Shell access (SSH access) is not required for installing MediaWiki, but it is highly recommended.

Installed Mar 2006, W2K3-Server, Apache 2.0.54, PHP5.04 (xampp-win32-1.4.14), MediaWiki 1.5.6 Solution : Shared VirtualHost with SSL, one IP-Address, one SSL-Certificate Install MediaWiki e.g. 2 Wiki-Server, installed in real DocumentRoot, first in /DocumentRoot/wiki1 second in /DocumentRoot/wiki2 Rename index.php and add entries (alias, ...) to httpd.conf Rename index.php e.g. in wiki1ix.php and wiki2ix.php # GLOBAL AREA httpd.

Installing MediaWiki takes between 10 and 30 minutes, and involves uploading/copying files, and running the installer script to configure the software.

There is a project at mw:Project:PD help that is creating a self-contained help system, with links to an experimental pywikipedia bot that can mirror that. Mediawiki has problems with autostarting sessions. Check your php.ini (you can run phpinfo() to find where it is located) and look for session.auto_start. It should be '0'. Also, session.use_cookies should be '1'. If you don't have access to php.ini and you're using Apache try to create a .

No. Wikimedia is the name of a group of wiki-based open-content projects managed by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. MediaWiki is the software developed to meet the needs of these projects. edit] I tried that but it didn't work I had a problem, I came to this page and it told me how to fix it. But it didn't work, the problem is still there! Nine times out of ten this is because you didn't clear your cache. The simple test for this is to request a page that hasn't been requested before.

There are two timezone-related settings: $wgLocaltimezone and $wgLocalTZoffset. Set both in LocalSettings.php. $wgLocaltimezone is used for formatting the timezone in signatures, and should be set to the locale name, for example "Europe/Berlin". $wgLocalTZoffset sets the default user preference the number of hours your local time differs from server time, and is used for timestamps seen in recent changes and history views.

Set $wgReadOnlyFile in LocalSettings.php to the name of a file, then put the reason for read-only mode inside the file. The contents of the file will be displayed to anyone trying to edit the wiki. Since 1.5 you can set $wgReadOnly to a string describing the reason for read-only mode, instead of creating a file. (Usual wiki markup is allowed in this string).

Many Linux distributions provide MediaWiki in a packaged format for that distribution. The MediaWiki development team refers you to your Linux distribution for assistance with installing, configuring or using them. The individual communities & companies who maintain such packages should provide installation instructions.

You can hide the Powered by MediaWiki image by adding the following to your wiki's MediaWiki:Common.css: If you want to remove it completely, you could alter /skins/MonoBook.

First you should try a PHP cache engine such as eAccelerator or APC. It will save the parsed PHP scripts and enhance performance a lot (this is something you should use anyway on any PHP installation with non-trivial traffic). Zend Platform also contains a bytecode cache, however its "dynamic content caching" is not supported in MediaWiki at the current time. Memcached will provide some performance benefit, especially for heavily viewed sites.

Under 1.5, to disable all view top tabs, create a new skin according to the instructions in MediaWiki look and feel#Skin and name this MonoBookNoViews. Set this as the default theme. Logged in users will need to change their default theme to see the tabs to edit pages, however. You will need to remove the section of code in the MonoBookNoViews.php file which generates the views (top tabs).

To follow on from those, this is how at least one individual imported pages from usemod to MediaWiki: Because MediaWiki does not automatically link to CamelCase style links, you will need to add brackets [[ ]] to all your links. You can do this with the following: First, obtain ImportStage1.txt (or whatever you want to call it) from the importUseModWiki.

No, remote loading is discouraged. If you're really keen, you can set up a mirror of it and use that.

PmWiki is a very easy to setup wiki that is highly extendable and configurable, with a community that provides lots of code and good documentation. While MediaWiki is used by many popular projects such as Wikipedia, it doesn't have the features we need.

In wiki terms, a sandbox is simply a "play pen"; a page which users can mess about in. This is an ordinary page created in the normal manner, and can be located wherever you like. There is no special sandbox functionality built into MediaWiki. Users often inquire about the Wikipedia sandboxes, which seem to be self-emptying. This is not quite correct; there are a number of volunteers who run bots to clean these up and return them to a certain state at regular time intervals.

After copying the mediawiki source tree in /opt/mediawiki/ you need to run something like: mkdir .../wiki cd .../wiki mkdir images ln -s /opt/mediawiki/{languages,includes,skins,redirect.php,index.php,maintenance,StartProfiler.php} . cp -a /opt/mediawiki/config/ /opt/mediawiki/install-utils.inc . chown www-data: config/ images/ # configure your new wiki and fix the permissions rm -rf config install-utils.inc Then add /opt/mediawiki to the commands which set the include_path in config/index.

The word wiki is taken from the Hawaiian for quick (wiki-wiki). It's used to describe the nature of browser-based editing which enables a registered user to submit articles without having to have an FTP account or much coding experience. The Stargate SG-1 Solutions Wiki is driven by the MediaWiki program. This program is a combination of a database, parser, and webpage generator.

Have a look at mw:Help:Configuration settings#Shared_uploads or Help:Wiki family for detailed information --Produnis 09:50, 16 April 2006 (UTC)