{"id":9,"date":"2006-10-17T18:49:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/wiki-farm\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T18:49:54","slug":"wiki_farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/wiki_farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiki Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;ve just set up a wiki farm with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/MediaWiki\">MediaWiki<\/a> for the new <a href=\"http:\/\/hippygeek.co.uk\">hippygeek.co.uk<\/a>. This means running multiple instances of MediaWiki from a single installation, to reduce the amount of work needed to perform upgrades on multiple wikis.<\/p>\n<p>Basically it involves symlinking the entire contents of the mediawiki directory for each instance, with a few exceptions. I&#039;m not sure how well this will scale if I automate creating wikis in this way and I&#039;m yet to attempt an actual upgrade, I&#039;ll write about my experiences here.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#039;re looking to do this, I basically followed <a href=\"http:\/\/prevolution.org\/mediawikifarm\">these instructions<\/a> with a few modifications, like having a separate database and images directory per wiki.<\/p>\n<p>I also set up <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url\">cleaner URIs for MediaWiki<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Access_Restrictions MediaWiki\">disabled anonymous editing<\/a> for now as spam prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;ve just set up a wiki farm with MediaWiki for the new hippygeek.co.uk. This means running multiple instances of MediaWiki from a single installation, to reduce the amount of work needed to perform upgrades on multiple wikis. Basically it involves symlinking the entire contents of the mediawiki directory for each instance, with a few exceptions. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/wiki_farm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wiki Farm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}