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Online Learning Appliance Suite: MediaWiki component

The Wiki component of my online learning suite -- for teacher/student and student/student collaboration

Description

MediaWiki

A standalone Virtual Appliance and/or part of the Online Learning Appliance Suite (OLAS)

by Farren Constable, May 24, 2006

The MediaWiki package is possibly the most popular of all the Wiki packages due to the fact that it powers the wikipedia site. I have included a Wiki package in my Suite because in the classes I teach, students will be required to collaboratively create a Wiki knowledge-base of the information they learn in the class. A Wiki could also be built by the teacher for disseminating information to the class. This bit from the FAQ describes it better than I can:

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What is MediaWiki?

MediaWiki is a Wiki engine; that is, it is software which provides a web site that contains pages which can be edited by users. It is used primarily by the Wikimedia Foundation to power their open-content projects, such as Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.
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When should I use MediaWiki?

MediaWiki is ideal for setting up and running websites where the intent is to allow collaborative editing by users, as in the Wikis described above. With a little tweaking, MediaWiki can be used for a number of other applications, and several users of the software have customized it to meet varying needs.
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While this MediaWiki server could very easily stand alone and be extremely useful, I consider it to be one component of my Online Learning Appliance Suite (OLAS). Please read the "Online Learning Appliance Suite info.txt" file for more information.

Full documentation, additional information, news, etc., is available at http://www.mediawiki.org.

This MediaWiki Server is built on Open SuSE 10.1 from opensuse.org.
The MediaWiki product is version 1.6.6 from mediawiki.org.

The root password is 'teach'.
There is one user account named 'teacher' with a password of 'password'.
There is NO GUI installed for this server to keep it lean.
The network is configured to obtain a DHCP address.
YAST is installed and is how I did most of the configuration of the Linux system, including Apahce.
Once the server is up, you can access the MediaWiki server by pointing a web browser to: http://server-ip-address/.
The Wiki has a default admin account of 'WikiSysop' and a password of 'password'. Note that it is case sensitive!
The mySQL root password is also 'teach'.

Simply power up the VM, and once it is at a login prompt, you are ready to connect with a browser at http://server-ip-address/. You may need to log in a root and run the 'ifconfig' command to find out what IP address the VM was given from your DHCP server. Then, point your browser to that IP address as described above.

Enjoy!

Last updated: 06/05/2006

Operating system: Open SuSE 10.1

Applications installed:
MediaWiki version 1.6.6 from mediawiki.org

VMware Tools installed: Yes

Size: 421 MB
Torrent available: Yes
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Primary account
Username: root
Password: teach

Submitted by: Farren

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