JumpBox for MediaWiki Wiki 1.1.13

JumpBox for MediaWiki Wiki 1.1.13 offers users a full-featured appliance that deploys locally, or hosted to major virtualization, and cloud computing platforms.

A JumpBox bundles the operating system with the application and all its dependencies into a single ready to run bundle. This allows you to focus on working with the application while not having to worry about getting it installed. It also means that the application can be deployed on any x86 platform regardless of what platform the application is written for. All that is required is the JumpBox, some virtualization software like VMware, a network that assigns dynamic IP addresses (most do), and a computer with enough RAM and disk space.

MediaWiki is a Wiki application that allows you to write, edit, manage, store, and organize knowledge collaboratively. Create and edit content collaboratively, search and retrieve information effortlessly. The JumpBox for MediaWiki provides you with the world's most popular wiki platform.

Wikipedia.org is perhaps the most well known organization to use MediaWiki. However, thousands of other websites use MediaWiki to manage their knowledge collaboratively including Novell, ISA Telematics GmbH, and Intel. MediaWiki is a breeze to use, simply click the 'edit page tab' at the top of the page, make changes, and click save. MediaWiki provides page history, page revisions, and change summaries, you will always know what changes have been made and by whom. MediaWiki's rich feature set delights, yet its open source design allows even more functionality to satisfy your needs. For instance, authors can use templates, or dynamic lists, mathematicians can insert mathematical formulas and graphical time lines, and musicians can insert musical scores. MediaWiki's most appreciated functionality may be its support for images. With MediaWiki you can create vibrant image galleries with unparalleled ease. MediaWiki allows you to collaborate and manage knowledge, the JumpBox for MediaWiki provides you the world's most popular wiki platform quickly.

MediaWiki - Here are just a few benefits you'll receive:

• Customizable look and feel - Choose from available skins, create new skins, and configure skins to fit your style. Generate printable versions of articles, enable auto-numbered headings, and more.
• Editing tracking - Stay in tune with changing information by tracking the changes on the articles you are interested in. Also, track user contributions, witness article history, see related changes, and view the differences side by side.
• Configurable structures and syntax - Allow full use of HTML, use parenthetical hiding to clarify meaning, link to individual sections of an article, and assign multiple categories to any page as you wish.
• Editing - Edit individual sections or whole articles, preview your edits, and see edit summaries.
• Multilingual Support - MediaWiki supports over 130 languages, use it world-wide.
• Configurable Permissions - Assign different edit rights to different users.
• Search - Search full text, query back links, and special report pages such as orphaned articles, site statistics, and pages by title.

1. An intuitive user interface to quickly guide users through deployment.
2. A web-based control panel for simplified management of system functions.
3. A backup system that enables data security and portability.

Enhancements:

• MediaWiki was updated to version 1.15.1.  Users should be able to restore from the MediaWiki JumpBox version 1.0 and later.
• This is a security and bugfix release of MediaWiki.

• Computer running any of: Mac OS X, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Linux
• Virtualization software. See the complete list of supported systems.
• For easiest use: a network that assigns dynamic IP addresses. (Most do)
• 3 GB Free disk space
• Minimum 1 GB System RAM (Each JumpBox you run on the same system will need 256-512MB of additional RAM)
• Minimum 1 Ghz CPU