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Success! Setting up MediaWiki for use in Presentation
Thanks again for all the help in getting
set up with a local install of MediaWiki.

I've just received word that one of the
sessions will have 72 people and the
other 38 for "Wiki Wiki Learning".

What do you think about approaching
Michael at the Linspire / Lindows Corp
and sharing the positive experience with
setting up MediaWiki? Could we suggest
he include the software in the Click-N-Run
Warehouse? Would this be possible and
would it be ok with the foundation and the
developers?

I'm so encouraged by the easy install and
the excellent setup that I'd be willing to
try it on an iMac... or the iBook, but only
after the conferences, the first of which
is in one more week.

With thanks to all who've responded to
my questions...

Sincerely,
Jay B.


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:31:26 +0000 (UTC),
wikitech-l-request@wikimedia.org <wikitech-l-request@wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> 8. Success! Setting up MediaWiki for use in Presentation to
> Conferences (ilooy)
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:04:57 +0300
> From: NSK <nsk2@wikinerds.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Success! Setting up MediaWiki for use in
> Presentation to Conferences
> To: ilooy <ilooy.gaon@gmail.com>, Wikimedia developers
> <wikitech-l@wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <200410272304.57561.nsk2@wikinerds.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 22:50, ilooy wrote:
> > went very smoothly
>
> Good to hear that
>
> > http://localhost/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> It's the same as http://127.0.0.1/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> This is the IP address of your computer. There is nothing wrong with that.
>
> > http://linspiron/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> That's the domain name of your computer. You choose the "linspiron" part
> during GNU/Linux installation (can be changed later).
>
> It's your computer; there is nothing wrong with that address.
>
> > somehow the ¨index.php¨ part doesn´t seem
>
> It's right.
>
> MediaWiki uses "pretty URLs" so instead of ? it uses / to make the URL more
> beautiful.
>
> --
> NSK
> Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org
> Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org
> Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org
>
Re: Success! Setting up MediaWiki for use in Presentation [ In reply to ]
>What do you think about approaching
>Michael at the Linspire / Lindows Corp
>and sharing the positive experience with
>setting up MediaWiki? Could we suggest
>he include the software in the Click-N-Run
>Warehouse? Would this be possible and
>would it be ok with the foundation and the
>developers?
>
One issue I had was the lack of a normal autoconf-style configuration
which would be useful in cases where the user isn't going to want to
configure the program through a console session and their web browser.
It'd be handy to have such an interface for those of us that want to
script the install without reinventing the wheel every single time. It'd
probably make MediaWiki easier to package consistantly across platforms
too I'd imagine. Is there anything like that available?

--
Michael <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu>
http://kavlon.org