Just my 2 cents:
If you already know Linux quite well, then that would probably be your platform of choice (if MediaWiki has a "native" platform, then I guess you prolly have to say that it's Linux). Linux can however (despite all progress) still be quite daunting for the wholly uninitiated (oh, I know I will get flamed for this beyond measure).
I would not recommend Windows. Not that I've actually tried MediaWiki on Windows, but it's the least "UNIXarian" of the three and MediaWiki is sort of "at home" in an UNIX-like environment. Windows installs are possible but maybe not just encouraged that much.
I've personally installed MediaWiki on Mac OS X and it can be got to run with quite moderate effort and even with a limited skillset (such as mine). There is a decent walkthrough at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X . However: I am not so sure how complete it is in terms of the "securing Apache" section -- I personally haven't yet figured that one out. So you want some old pro to check things in terms of security. (That actually goes for installs on all OSes.) Neither have I gotten URL rewriting to work. So Mac OS X is not perfect either.
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On 25 Oct 2004, at 14:51, ilooy wrote:
Hi fellow wikipedians ;-)
I exchanged emails with Brion about ideas for setting up a local wiki running on either Linspire, Mac OSX, or Windows.
I'm doing a presentation on Wikipedia for a couple of conferences in NH, about 120 educators and admins will be attending the presentations, at the McAuliffe Conference and the NHAWLT conference.
Do you have ideas as to what would be the easier setup and what would be a good perhaps thorough enough introduction to Wikimedia and its projects?
Any input on this is welcome.
with regards always, Jay B. [[w:en:User:ILVI]]
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