Patent Data Project Wiki

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 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 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)

Fix the permissions so we can set up the wiki in directory 'w' (tighten them afterwards):

chmod 777 -R w