Prototyping 2020.01.13

• Mediawiki as archive and editorial space
• Project where MW serves as backed to other reading interfaces (static and dynamic)
  • Mondotheque
  • PZI Graduation website
  • Warp Weft Memory
  • Tonnelstof

Mediawiki install:

Follow instructions at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide

Dependencies installed:

• webserver: Apache
• PHP7.3 + necessary extensions
• imagemagick
• MYSQL server
  • create db & db user for wiki

Install MediaWiki

• Download MW .tar.gz folder to the the html/ dir of this machine, usually `/var/www/html`
• untar `tar xfvz mediawiki-1.34.0.tar.gz`
• change the name on the resulting mw directory, for instance superwiki
• in the browser go to IP.of.server/superwiki for browser based installer
• install extensions:
  • wikieditor
  • OATHAuth

Post Installation

• image uploads
  • enable images upload to designate location (inside MW directory)
  • define formats allowed
  • define maximum size of uploads
    • in MW LocalSettings.php
    • in php.ini

• extensions
  • SimpleBatchUpload
  • Page_Forms
  • Cargo

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

• • Media: mounted disk

• Populate manually
  • image file
  • description
• Pull the URL from Files + Files text content from images