On 04/04/2013 10:37 AM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote:
Files loaded http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc1.tar.gz seem to be the same as offered at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git Is it so?
The tarball has some bundled extensions that I don't think come when you use the second link. See the extensions directory.
The place to put these files is difficult to guess. No simple algorithm to choose this place is presented. The descriptions at mediawiki.org cited suggest several screens of speculations about, but it is difficult to apply them practically.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here.
You've mentioned before that you're running MAMP on OS X, I think. I'm not sure where its webroot is.
The simple recommendation should be placed at the top, indicating, where should the beginner put the files in order to get workable (and preferably, robust and stable) wiki-site.
That would be ideal, yes. I'm not sure how applicable that is given the variety of platforms MediaWiki runs on. For example, on many Linux platforms /var/www/wiki or ~/public_html/wiki would be a good location. I don't think either of those locations would work for Windows or most OS X users.
Also, consider to specify the requirements mentioned at file INSTALL at the preamble of the articles in Mediawiki. You could provide some tests, how the beginner can guess, does he/she have the PHP and/or MySQL or not. The test should not force the user to learn PHP and MySQL in order to understand, do they run well or not.
Your perspective on all this is fascinating to me. I haven't really considered that someone without a little basic PHP/MySQL knowledge would try to install MediaWiki.
I really appreciate all the insight you've given me so far. But I have to ask, what is your motivation for installing MediaWiki? What are you trying to accomplish?