I am a user of the mediawiki softwares to build specialized SQLite wikis - as a user/author personal management tool/interface/blog, etc. that can be replicated for back-up and convenience on several machines. I run this way several hundred of thematics or friends' sites I name "bliks" ("live book in line"). This allows publishing/maintaining documentation/debate/research/local pages/personal positions/etc. without being limited by the wikipedic neutrality

I am asked to make it a product that friends and cities could use. The way I manage the farm of them calls for one hour or two to set one bliks with all the basic pages, images, etc. I am willing to consider a deployment package on an USB key or as part of an extended LAMP installation.

However, this should be rationalized to integrate it with other non-mediawiki features. So, I would be interested in knowing (sorry for the number of questions) :

- if someone has attempted such a project already ? - where could I find a simple (images included) comprehensive description of the mediawiki software system architecture ? - if there is a place where every command made possible by main/extensions solutions and the corresponding PHP tool(s) are listed and introduced - or how should I proceed to build such a reference ? - if there were attempts to use functional programming to support the mediawiki core (server side) instead of PHP ? This must is to stay fully compatible with the mediwiki page format. - if there is a reliable way to protect access/write rights on single pages (so no one else than a specific authorized user can update a page ?) - last but not least: would there be some interested in sharing in my project (on/outside of this list) ?

Thank you of your help jfcm