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Hi Jeremy, I was recently recommended to Digital Ocean for simple low-cost hosting and have been quite pleased with the service. They also have some very easy-to-follow documentation and instructions for setting up all sorts of basic server-side software including mediawiki https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mediawiki-on-ubuntu-12-04 (this is for Ubuntu Linux, but there are many other OS available too. Good luck w/ your wiki! -Derek On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Sylvain Machefert < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello Jeremy, > as Craig said, I think you mean Mediawiki : > - Wikipedia : the well-known encyclopedia project > - Wikimedia Foundation : the foundation running the servers of the > previous project (+ some others) and managing infrastructure / legal / > funds and so on > - Mediawiki : the open source software running all Wikimedia Foundation > projects, available as an open source product. > > Mediawiki is built on PHP/Mysql and can easily be installed on almost any > hosting provider, but depending of the plugins you want, maybe you will > reach limitations of the lowcost hosting offers. For example, if you want > to use one of the biggest Mediawiki improvement of the last year, > VisualEditor which allows your user to contribute to the wiki without > knowing the wikicode ([[link]], '''bold''', == Title == ...) you have to > install an extra tool and that can be tricky on some hosts : > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor ) > > Hope this helps. > > Sylvain > > Le 16/12/2014 01:28, Jeremy C. Shellhase a écrit : > > Does anybody have a recommendation for a hosting service for Wikimedia? >> I'd normally think of installing something like this locally, but our >> centralized IT isn't up to the task and I have no staff or servers >> anymore. >> >> I'd like to be able to use plug-ins that I find and be able to use our >> campus' CAS/LDAP for authentication instead of host-based. >> >> We're just looking to replicate the internal communication services of an >> intranet web server for a small (31 person) Library. >> >> Happy holidays to all. >> >> Jeremy C. Shellhase >> Systems Librarian *and* >> Bibliographer/Instructor for Business, Economics, Education, Child >> Development, Psychology, Social Work >> Humboldt State University Library >> One Harpst Street >> Arcata, California 95521 >> 707-826-3144 (voice) >> 707-826-3441 (fax) >> [log in to unmask] >> >