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KiwiKay
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Can MediaWiki become portable?

Pardon my ignorance on this issue, I'm a techie novice. I see on this page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_on_MoWeS_Portable_%28Win...
that MoWeS Portable includes MediaWiki which can be run from a stick. And I see that someone here at PortableApps installed Portable XAMPP Lite and MediaWiki, but it's not clear to me if this can integrate fully with PortableApps. Seems like if it were that simple, it would be listed on the page of portable apps.

Could someone please let me know if it can be installed on the same external drive that I'm running my PortableApps from without causing a problem (even though it may not meet all the requirements of being "portable")?

Are there any plans to fully integrate MediaWiki? I'd like to use it as a personal content management system and also as a way to build my future website content (which will be a WikiMedia website).

Thanks,
Jennifer (in New Zealand)

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For a personal content

For a personal content management system I use 'Wiki on a Stick', current version is v0.11.1 http://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/

From the website:

Wiki on a Stick (in short WoaS) is a wiki that lives in one self-modifying XHTML file. It's perfect to be used at home or at office, on your laptop or USB pen drive (along with Portable Firefox if you want) and even in a floppy disk! It can be used as a personal notepad, calendar, repository for software documentation and many other things; it allows full customization and extension by your own scripts or libraries. It also offers true AES encryption of pages.

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You need to use XAMPP as the environment

In order to use MediaWiki, you need a database, PHP, etc.
I've had success installing XAMPP and MediaWiki together, which is portable.
Check out the article on XAMPP here:
https://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp
But read on before you download it...

There are tons of tutorials for installing them together, but there is one small conflict with the current versions of these. The current XAMPP (1.7.3) uses PHP 5.3.1, which is incompatible with MediaWiki, but it's easy enough to get XAMPP 1.7.2, here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/
Look in All Files->XAMPP Windows->1.7.2

Here's the official MediaWiki instructions to install these together:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_XAMPP

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KiwiKay
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Portable MediaWiki

Hey, that's great!

How about getting it (or something similar) brought over to PortableApps so it can be part of standard updates, etc?

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Look at this: http://blog.iterarus.com/en/projects/flighty_mw-portable-wiki/

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