For opensuse I've developed scripts which allows simple installation and updates of
several mediawiki instances. You could have a look at the scripts in
https://build.opensuse.org/stage/package/files?package=mediawiki&projec…
There is makealias.sh, which builds up a symlinked structure and suggests an apache
configuration (based on mediawiki's short urls. The suggested config also tries to
seperate the individual installations completly by setting some php-parameters. All
created wikis are listed in /etc/mediawiki-installations to be used by update.sh which
incorporates the single updates and some service-works, depending on the version
upgrades.
There are no patches needed to operate the wiki (there is only one patch for an upload
problem included, which should be removed when I'm updateing to release 1.20).
Johannes
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Johannes Weberhofer
Weberhofer GmbH, Austria, Vienna