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MediaWiki 1.4-prealpha 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.
You may select the language for the user interface of the wiki... Some localizations are less complete than others. This also controls the character encoding; Unicode is more flexible, but Latin-1 may be more compatible with older browsers for some languages. Unicode will be used where not specified otherwise.
Select one:
  • 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.
Select one:
Using a shared memory system such as Turck MMCache 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.

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.
You will only need this if the database and/or user account above don't already exist. Do not type in your machine's root password! MySQL has its own "root" user with a separate password. (It might even be blank, depending on your configuration.)