Hi,
what would be best to install MediaWiki on a
laptop or do screen shots? Or maybe some other
idea I haven't thought of yet for presenting
Wikipedia to a group of 80 to 120 educators...
I'll be presenting at the McAuliffe and NHAWLT
conferences this year and would like to show how
Wikipedia and MediaWiki can be useful in
education.
I can't depend on going online at the conference
center... although this would be ideal... but if I
can prepare to run a local database for the sake
of showing how the editing process takes place
and how easy it is to add articles and make
corrections, additions etc... I think running it
on a Laptop with Linspire 4.5 may be doable,
although I'd certainly take your suggestions
seriously (the DELL laptop has 30Gb drive with
256Mb RAM, and I can put Apache and PHP,
and I'd need MySQL on it, of course.
There was a fellow Wikipedian who had made
available a Wiki-engine that would run a
downloaded wiki database on Windows XP.
I tried it on a Compaq and I remember it was
pretty slick... I can borrow a Gateway with
128MB and 30Gb harddrive with XP which
may run this if I can get a hold of the program...
does anyone remember what this may have been?
It was posted here, I downloaded it and tried it
last year with good results... this would mean
I wouldn't have to install MediaWiki on the
DELL laptop.
The other option is to just do a Presentation with
OpenOffice or PowerPoint, including screenshots.
But this by itself wouldn't have the impact of having
the working model to present.
What do you suggest doing, has anyone presented
Wikipedia to a large audience and could we make
available if there isn't already a list of suggestions
when presenting Wikipedia and MediaWiki.
I appreciate your help in getting things thought out.
With regards,
Jay B.