User:Cwells/Manual:Preview/Overview of basic steps to building a MediaWiki

This page will cover some of the basic steps to take/consider when building a MediaWiki wiki.

Basic Steps for Setting up a MediaWiki Website

1. Define Purpose (required)
   • Publicly accessible?
   • Internally accessible only?
2. Select Deployment Platform (required)
   • Operating System (Linux, Windows) ?
   • Web Server (Apache, IIS) ?
   • Database (MySQL) ?
3. Install MediaWiki (required)
4. Configure MediaWiki (required)
   • Global Wiki Settings
   • User Permissions
5. Install MediaWiki Extensions (recommended)
   • Flagged Revisions
   • Semantic Bundle
   • Widgets
6. Read the MediaWiki FAQ (recommended)
7. Content (required)
   • Define Content

   a. Pages

   b. Properties

   c. Templates

   d. Forms

   e. classes (requires Semantic MediaWiki extension(s))

   • Add Content

   a. Main_Page

   b. About

   c. etc..

8. Include Social Media Widgets (optional, requires the Widgets extension)
   • YouTube
   • Twitter
   • Google Maps
   • etc..
9. Add Useful Tools (optional)
   • http://www.google.com/analytics
   • http://www.addthis.com
   • http://www.sharethis.com
10. Apply Important Features (recommended)
    • anti-spam
    • anti-vandalism
    • wiki importing
    • preventing access

Cwells 18:43, 10 December 2010 (UTC)