[Mageia-sysadm] mediawiki

Fri Mar 11 18:05:49 CET 2011

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Oliver Burger wrote:
+
+> Hi Sysadmins
+> 
+> I have finally (almost) finished my work on mediawiki.
+> I put it on the mandrivauser ftp for reviewing (and finishing it). Info 
+> below:
+> ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/rpm/GPL/2010.2/SRPMS/release/mediawiki-1.16.1-2mud2010.2.src.rpm
+
+Hello,
+
+Thanks for uploading this package. I have looked at the latest version.
+
+If I understood correctly, what is provided by this package is :
+ - standard mediawiki sources
+ - LdapAuthentication plugin
+ - Renameuser plugin
+ - a mediawiki config file that is looking at the URL to see the
+   language selected, and change config variables for the database
+   according to the selected language in the URL
+ - an index file for the root directory to redirect to the language
+   selected in HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
+ - create-db.sh script to create the database for each language
+
+
+As the source for mediawiki does not need to be modified, I think we
+don't need to make a specific package for Mageia setup. It would
+be better to use a standard media wikipackage (that we also include on
+mageia repository, so it can be useful for other people, and other
+people can help maintain it). And different packages for the mediawiki
+plugins. And use puppet to deploy the mediawiki config file, the apache
+vhost, and to deploy and run the script to create the database.
+
+For the script to create the database, it should not be interactive as
+we will run it from puppet. It can use variables at the top of the
+script that we can update with puppet.
+
+Package should also follow web applications packaging policies :
+http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web_applications_policy
+So it should :
+ - install mediawiki files in /usr/share/mediawiki
+ - install mediawiki config file in /etc/mediawiki/
+
+