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 <
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>
> 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)
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>>
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