Showing posts with label MediaWiki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MediaWiki. Show all posts

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...