MediaWiki Appliance

MediaWiki is a powerful wiki engine that was originally developed to serve the needs of Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia. Today, MediaWiki is used publicly by many of the largest and most popular wikis online,  while privately it is being increasingly deployed inside company Intranets as a knowledge and content management system.

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

• MediaWiki configurations:
  • Installed from package management. See /var/www for links to file paths.
  • Ensure clean and compliant HTML ($wgUseTidy)
  • Out of the box file uploading and image resizing (GD library)
    • Maximum filesize: 2MB
    • Supported file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg
• Bundled MediaWiki extensions (installed to /var/www/extensions)
  Enabled by default: to disable unneeded extensions edit /etc/mediawiki/extensions.php
  • FCKeditor: WYSIWYG editor for wiki pages.
  • ParserFunctions: Enhances parser with logical functions.
  • StringFunctions: Additional set of parser functions that operate on strings.
  • CategoryTree: Provides a dynamic view of the category structure as a tree.
  • Renameuser: Special page allowing authorised users to rename user accounts.
  • Preloader: Populate new pages with template content depending on namespace.
  • CharInsert: JavaScript character insert boxes used on edit type pages.
  • ConfirmEdit: Math captcha.
  • Gadgets: JS/CSS-based gadgets.
  • SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi: adds <source> tag to present formatted source code.
  • Cite: Create footnotes.
  • AWC's Forum: Forum integration.
• SSL support out of the box.
• PHPMyAdmin administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL).
• Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery, user registration)
• Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP and MySQL.

Customization details:

• Site logo is located at /var/lib/mediawiki/images/logo.png (recommended size: 135x135px).
• Site name and administrative emails (set in /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php)

  $wgSitename = "";
  $wgEmergencyContact = webmaster@localhost;
  $wgPasswordSender = webmaster@localhost;

See the MediaWiki docs for further details.