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)
 * 2) * Publicly accessible?
 * 3) * Internally accessible only?
 * 4) Select Deployment Platform (required)
 * 5) * Operating System (Linux, Windows) ?
 * 6) * Web Server (Apache, IIS) ?
 * 7) * Database (MySQL) ?
 * 8) Install MediaWiki (required)
 * 9) Configure MediaWiki (required)
 * 10) * Global Wiki Settings
 * 11) * User Permissions
 * 12) Install MediaWiki Extensions (recommended)
 * 13) * Flagged Revisions
 * 14) * Semantic Bundle
 * 15) * Widgets
 * 16) Read the MediaWiki FAQ (recommended)
 * 17) Content (required)
 * 18) * Define Content
 * a. Pages
 * b. Properties
 * c. Templates
 * d. Forms
 * e. classes (requires Semantic MediaWiki extension(s))
 * 1) * Add Content
 * a. Main_Page
 * b. About
 * c. etc..
 * 1) Include Social Media Widgets (optional, requires the Widgets extension)
 * 2) * YouTube
 * 3) * Twitter
 * 4) * Google Maps
 * 5) * etc..
 * 6) Add Useful Tools (optional)
 * 7) * http://www.google.com/analytics
 * 8) * http://www.addthis.com
 * 9) * http://www.sharethis.com
 * 10) Apply Important Features (recommended)
 * 11) * anti-spam
 * 12) * anti-vandalism
 * 13) * wiki importing
 * 14) * preventing access

Cwells 18:43, 10 December 2010 (UTC)