MediaWiki is a powerful wiki engine that was originally developed to serve the needs of Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis online, while privately it is being increasingly deployed inside company Intranets as a knowledge and content management system.
This appliance includes all the standard features inTurnKey Core, and on top of that:
- SSL support out of the box.
- Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery, user registration)
- PHPMyAdmin administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 – uses SSL).
- Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP and MySQL.
- The MediaWiki database password and secret will be regenerated during installation (security)
- Useful/popular extensions included and enabled by default (/etc/mediawiki/extensions.php)
- FCKeditor: WYSIWYG editor for wiki pages.
- ParserFunctions: Enhances parser with logical functions.
- StringFunctions: Additional set of parser functions that operate on strings.
- CategoryTree: Provides a dynamic view of the category structure as a tree.
- Renameuser: Special page allowing authorised users to rename user accounts.
- Preloader: Populate new pages with template content depending on namespace.
- CharInsert: JavaScript character insert boxes used on edit type pages.
- ConfirmEdit: Math captcha.
- Gadgets: JS/CSS-based gadgets.
- SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi: adds <source> tag to present formatted source code.
- Cite: Create footnotes.
- AWC’s Forum: Forum integration.
- MediaWiki is configured to ensure clean and compliant HTML ($wgUseTidy).
- File uploading and image resizing is supported out of the box (GD library)
- Maximum filesize: 2MB
- Supported file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg