(Part of the detailed Step-by-Step Installation Guide for setting up the Server)

MediaWiki has an out-dated Ubuntu packge, so we install from source.

sudo addgroup mediawikiadmins

cd /opt 

sudo wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.9.3.tar.gz

sudo tar zxvf mediawiki-1.9.3.tar.gz

sudo ln -s mediawiki-1.9.3 mediawiki

Add extensions desired by Facilitators:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions

sudo chgrp -R mediawikiadmins /opt/mediawiki

Configure MySQL:

Configure Apache:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/conf/sites-available/mediawiki

cd /etc/apache2/conf/sites-active

sudo ln -s /sites-available/mediawiki

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Continue with the rest of the detailed Step-by-Step Installation Guide