Wednesday, January 23, 2019

MediaWiki Installation on Raspberry Pi

Success!

If you ask me why I would want to install MediaWiki on a Raspberry Pi I'll give you the same answer George Mallory gave when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest:
Because it's there.
Which is just another way of saying because I want to.

Anyway, I installed MediaWiki on a Raspberry Pi and this is how I did it.

If you don't already know a Raspberry Pi is:
The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote teaching of basic computer science in schools and in developing countries...
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B was released in February 2016 with a 1.2 GHz 64-bit quad core processor, on-board WiFi, Bluetooth and USB boot capabilities.
So what is MediaWiki? I'll let them explain it for themselves:
MediaWiki is a free and open source software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now also used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis...