Category:Software documentation

Documentation of installation, maintenance, and cooking recipes for various software installed on the biowikifarm server.

(Presently this is both a manually sorted page and an automatic category list)

Running the server

• Server virtualization
• Debian installation
• Debian upgrade 4 to 5
• Server ports and shorewall installation
• Server backup and restore
• Selected Linux commands

Running Mediawiki

• Mediawiki installation
• Mediawiki maintenance (including version upgrade)
• Mediawiki XML page importing
• Batch importing files into MediaWiki
• Identification tools installed on biowikifarm
• Converting Dryades Key to MediaWiki
• Wiki API
• Converting Word to Mediawiki text
• Protected Namespaces or Wikis
• Useful Scripts and Modifications

Current active development:

• Materials for Mediawiki php and Javascript developers: Mediawiki Virtual Library
• Better jquery code: http://paulirish.com/2009/perf/
• Semantic Mediawiki
• Caching Wikimedia Commons file to local repository DONE

Mobile Key development

• Mobile Key
• Wiki File Resolver

Other topics

• Recovering from mysql failures
• Managing wiki user confirmation: confirm-biowikifarm email list
• Installing Ubuntu under VirtualBox

Fedora Commons Repository and Generic Search Service (GSearch)

• FEDORA Installation
• FEDORA Gsearch Installation
• FEDORA Evaluation including Gsearch
• FEDORA Batch Import
• OAI-PMH service for K2N Fedora Commons based repository

K2N Ingestion Service for Fedora Commons Repository

• Template Parameter Index
• MediaWiki based ingest tool
• MediaWiki based online Tasks management for ingest tool
• Metadata XML Schema
• K2N-DCMI-Europeana Metadata Elements Mapping

Developer resources

• Installation of PHP & Eclipse to debug Mediawiki
• JKey Player & JKey Editor

See also: Why we like MediaWiki