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MediaWiki 1.5.6 installation

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

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Site config

Must not be blank or "MediaWiki".
Your site name should be a relatively short word. It'll appear as the namespace name for 'meta' pages as well as throughout the user interface. Good site names are things like "Wikipedia" and "OpenFacts"; avoid punctuation, which may cause problems.
This will be used as the return address for password reminders and may be displayed in some error conditions so visitors can get in touch with you. It is also be used as the default sender address of e-mail notifications (enotifs).
You may select the language for the user interface of the wiki... Some localizations are less complete than others. Unicode (UTF-8 encoding) is used for all localizations.
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  • choose (link will wipe out any other data in this form!)
MediaWiki can include a basic license notice, icon, and machine-readable copyright metadata if your wiki's content is to be licensed under the GNU FDL or a Creative Commons license. If you're not sure, leave it at "none".
Must not be blank
A sysop user account can lock or delete pages, block problematic IP addresses from editing, and other maintenance tasks. If creating a new wiki database, a sysop account will be created with the given name and password.
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Using a shared memory system such as Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, or Memcached will speed up MediaWiki significantly. Memcached is the best solution but needs to be installed. Specify the server addresses and ports in a comma-separted list. Only use Turck shared memory if the wiki will be running on a single Apache server.

E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup

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Use this to disable all e-mail functions (send a password reminder, user-to-user e-mail and e-mail notification), if sending e-mails on your server doesn't work.
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Use this to disable only the user-to-user e-mail function (EmailUser).
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E-mail notification sends a notification e-mail to a user, when the user_talk page is changed and/or when watch-listed pages are changed, depending on the above settings. When testing this feature, be reminded, that obviously an e-mail address must be present in your preferences and that your own changes never trigger notifications to be sent to yourself.

Users get corresponding options to select or deselect in their users' preferences. The user options are not shown on the preference page, if e-mail notification is disabled.

There are additional options for fine tuning in /includes/DefaultSettings.php .

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E-mail address authentication uses a scheme to authenticate e-mail addresses of the users. The user who initially enters or changes his/her stored e-mail address gets a link with a token mailed to that address. The stored e-mail address is authenticated at the moment the user comes back to the wiki via the link.

The e-mail address stays authenticated as long as the user does not change it; the time of authentication is indicated on the user preference page.

If the option is enabled, only authenticated e-mail addresses can receive EmailUser mails and/or e-mail notification mails.

Database config

If your database server isn't on your web server, enter the name or IP address here.
Must not be blank
If you only have a single user account and database available, enter those here. If you have database root access (see below) you can specify new accounts/databases to be created.

If you need to share one database between multiple wikis, or MediaWiki and another web application, you may choose to add a prefix to all the table names to avoid conflicts.

Avoid exotic characters; something like mw_ is good.

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EXPERIMENTAL: You can enable explicit Unicode charset support for MySQL 4.1 and 5.0 servers. This is not well tested and may cause things to break. If upgrading an older installation, leave in backwards-compatible mode.
If the database user specified above does not exist, or does not have permissions to create the database or tables required, please provide details of a superuser account, such as root, which does. If this is not needed, leave the password set to -.