Ketai,
There may be some confusion, but to clarify - Wikipedia exists online only, and does not need any "installation" per se. All you need is a Web browser to access the content, that's it, because all the interaction happens online so that it can be worked on by many people around the world at the same time. However, if you are talking about the actual software Wikipedia uses, that's called Mediawiki, and information can be found here: http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/
It is indeed an open source project, and you can install it and do whatever you like with it. People have used it to start other encyclopedias or other documentation projects. See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki
Installing it does demand some resources though - it requires a Web server, a database, and some expertise at customizing it. If you are interested in playing with a much simpler Wiki software, you can always try out UsemodWiki, which is the simplest one, and requires the copying of just one file. See: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
Hope this helps, feel free to post more questions.
-Andrew
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:13:16 +0800, shi zhao shizhao@gmail.com wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CRLLT LAB ADMINISTRATOR crllt@uottawa.ca Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:56:34 -0400 Subject: Wikipedia To: shizhao@gmail.com
Dear ShiZhao,
How are you doing today?
My name is Ketai Hu. I am a chinese student in Univeristy of Ottawa. Currently i am taking a network administrator as my co-op job in one lab at my school. My supervisor is very interested in the Wikipedia and he wants to implent in our lab.
I really have no any idea about this open source software although i read it's documents for some days. I just followed the instruction , but i still can't successfully put on my system. Maybe i should give you my lab's environment's profile: We have around 20 windows box workstations to connect one windwos enterprise server, and i put RedHat 9.0 on each windows now.
just following the instatlllation doc, i installed the IBserver( it intergrates Apache, Mysql and PHP packages together) on windows worstation already. The problem is i can't put wikipedia on this platform. I got headache because i don't have any idea bout Webserer configuration.
Just got email from Wikipedia chinese version. so i hope i can get help from you. I really worry about this project, if i can't finish it, i think my boss will let me go home......
You are truly appreiated to reply me at your early convenient.
Thank you very much in advance.
BTW, if you can give me your phone number i can call you. Really want to get help from you. and you can write me in chinese,if you don't like english.
Have a nice day!
Ketai Hu
Lab Administrator Canada Research Laboratory of Law & Technology
Faculty of Law : Faculté de droit Common Law Section : Section Common Law University of Ottawa : Université d'Ottawa 57 rue, Louis Pasteur Ottawa, ON, CANADA K1N 6N5
t. (613) 562-5800 x2554
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