On 04/04/2013 10:37 AM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: > Files loaded > http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc1.tar.gz > seem to be the same as offered at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git > Is it so?
The tarball has some bundled extensions that I don't think come when you use the second link. See the extensions directory. > The place to put these files is difficult to guess. > No simple algorithm to choose this place is presented. > The descriptions at mediawiki.org cited suggest several screens of > speculations about, but it is difficult to apply them practically. I'm not entirely sure what you mean here. You've mentioned before that you're running MAMP on OS X, I think. I'm not sure where its webroot is. > The simple recommendation should be placed at the top, > indicating, where should the beginner put the files in > order to get workable (and preferably, robust and stable) wiki-site. That would be ideal, yes. I'm not sure how applicable that is given the variety of platforms MediaWiki runs on. For example, on many Linux platforms /var/www/wiki or ~/public_html/wiki would be a good location. I don't think either of those locations would work for Windows or most OS X users. > Also, consider to specify the requirements mentioned at file INSTALL at > the preamble of the articles in Mediawiki. > You could provide some tests, how the beginner can guess, does he/she > have the PHP and/or MySQL or not. > The test should not force the user to learn PHP and MySQL > in order to understand, do they run well or not. Your perspective on all this is fascinating to me. I haven't really considered that someone without a little basic PHP/MySQL knowledge would try to install MediaWiki. I really appreciate all the insight you've given me so far. But I have to ask, what is your motivation for installing MediaWiki? What are you trying to accomplish? -- http://hexmode.com/ [We are] immortal ... because [we have] a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. -- William Faulker, Nobel Prize acceptance speech _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
