[Mediawiki-l] Multiple Wikis with no prefix in database?

[Rob Church]

Logos can be defined in LocalSettings.php, as can skins. Those are
file related. By interface, I meant interface text, as set in the
MediaWiki: namespace.

The subset thing isn't possible, as far as I know.

Rob Church

On 07/10/05, Kent S. Larsen II <kent at lusobraz.com> wrote:
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Sounds like you are saying that everything will be the same except the url,
> right?
>
> The part that throws a kink in my hopes is the interface -- I'd like to
> give them different logos and possibly different skins.
>
> Also, I'm wondering if it is possible to have one wiki present just a
> subset of another?
>
> The wiki I'm working on is on literature. While I want an overall interface
> that gives me all the data, I'd also like a different interface that gives
> me just the poetry.
>
> From what you say, it sound's like it is not possible.
>
> Kent
>
>
> At 3:32 PM +0100 10/7/05, you wrote:
> >Don't re-run the install script, just copy the LocalSettings.php file
> >into the root folder of the "child" wikis and tweak the "name"
> >variables and so forth. Also check the paths. Note that they will
> >share the same users, data and MediaWiki interface; whatever changes
> >in one (that is saved to DB) will change in the other.
> >
> >
> >Rob Church
> >
> >On 07/10/05, Kent S. Larsen II <kent at lusobraz.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Can someone confirm that the software works how I assume it does?
> >>
> >> I'm installing multiple wikis on my server and want several of them to
> >> access the same database and be able to display the same information, just
> >> under a different 'branding'
> >>
> >> The installation instructions say that installing multiple wikis is
> >> possible, just that each one should have a separate prefix -- I assume to
> >> keep the data in each separate.
> >>
> >> If I leave out the prefix, will this give each of them access to the
> >>same data?
> >>
> >> If one has NO prefix but another does, will the one with NO prefix have
> >> access to all the data or to just some of the data?
> >>
> >> Kent
> >>
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