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The patent data project wiki is intended to be a central location for cooperative development, data dissemination, and information provision for the Patent Data Project at the NBER.

This page details the installation and configuration of the wiki.

==Getting the files==

See the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download download page for mediawiki]

Do the following:
nber7%> wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.18/mediawiki-1.18.1.tar.gz


==Installation==

The official mediawiki [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide Installation guide]

Check that PHP is higher than version 5.2.3 (and not 5.3.1):

nber7%> php -v
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Jul 22 2010 15:57:00)

Check that MySQL is version 4.0 or higher:

nber7%> mysql -h mysql.nber.org -u wikipatent -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 7991397
Server version: 5.1.48-log FreeBSD port: mysql-server-5.1.48

We will also need:
*ImageMagick or GD is required for image thumbnailing.
*TeX is required for the in-line display of mathematical formulae.
*Sendmail is required in order for the system to be able to send e-mails.

Extract the tar.gz and put the files in a directory called 'w' under public_html:

tar xvzf mediawiki-*.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.18.1 ../public_html/
cd ../public_html/
mv mediawiki-1.18.1/ w/

Mohan at the NBER created a database for the wiki. Check it's configuration now.

nber7%> mysql -h mysql.nber.org -u wikipatent -p
mysql> show GRANTS;
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for wikipatent@% |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'wikipatent'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '610973195c4dda6b' |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `patentwiki`.* TO 'wikipatent'@'%' |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.02 sec)
Anonymous user

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