For a History project in school, I have created a Wiki. Here’s my description on the site of how I made it:

WW1 Weapons Wiki

At first we installed the TikiWiki Content Management System using Fantastico Deluxe, an application within cPanel. Installation was very simple, although we had a default style, not the Wikipedia template.

The actual Wikipedia template is based on MediaWiki, usefully called Tikipedia. We downloaded this, unzipped and extracted it with 7-Zip and uploaded it over FTP into the styles folder, with the CSS file in a higher-level directory.

Going into the admin panel, we set the wiki to use the tikipedia.css stylesheet, which implemented all of the graphics on this page. Several adjustments were required, mainly margin adjustments and font sizes (the default was much too small).

The logo was created on Photoshop. We implanted the headerbg.jpg background within the logo image, which aligned perfectly within the page because the logo was being shown at exactly (x,y) (0,0) so it was in the top-left hand corner. We found the JPEG format on Low compression worked well, while maintaining a low file size. Use of PNGs were impossible, due to the lack of support on Internet Explorer 6.

It started to go downhill after the permissions got messed up, meaning everybody had access to the admin panel. When we tried to correct it, it disabled viewing permissions for everyone, including registered users and admins. We decided to scrap TikiWiki and install MediaWiki instead.

The content was extracted from the MySQL database and saved as plain HTML. Next, MediaWiki was downloaded and then uploaded to the Mr. Xav server. Installation was problematic due to some MySQL username issues, but eventually it was installed.

A new logo had to be made, this time 135 x 135 pixels, which was uploaded and set using $wgLogo. Finally, the content needed to be re-inserted into the wiki.