User:MarkJurgens/VESetup

This page is intended for less experienced users to help them setup MediaWiki's new Visual Editor. It's a great piece of software that will change your user's wiki experience completely, but the task of setting it up is a little daunting.

What you need to know already
How to setup MediaWiki manually. Download from here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23

Here's the latest release that I'll be working with. There's plenty of documentation and support for installing it. If you have used an installer like softalicious, or asked your hosting provider to setup the wiki for you, you need to get familiar with setting it up manually before attempting to setup VE. Manual installation is a much better idea in general for a number of reasons.

What you NEED to run VE
A VPS or a cloud based server. Most basic packages from hosting companies are NOT good enough because they don't give you something called root access. You can't get in behind the scenes and run small programs to do tasks in the background on your site. VE has a small program that does this, it's called Parsoid.

Setup
1. Install Mediawiki Manally (1.23 or higher)

As far as I know, VE will continue to be supported in 1.23, although the extension page said 1.24 at this point.

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