Open Neuroscience wiki system

This all started from a conversation here and here.

For Open Neuroscience, we got a domain and hosted server at Namecheap. The nice things about this hosting company are:

• their price
• can choose where the server will be located
• cPanel for control of the system is quite complete.
• command line control
• git installed by default
• easy install for mediawiki, wordpress, forums, etc
• unlimited subdomains
• easy cron jobs access
• setting up python apps with easy

Steps are:

1. get a domain name and server time
2. access cPanel and using softaculous suite install mediaWiki - (1-click install)
3. install extensions, packages and skins listed here

• note: most of this is done in command line, so it might be a good idea to get a bit familiar with how to navigate folders and display folder content using the command line of GNU/Linux systems. Also the some text is edited also in command line. We used vim for text editing, but there are other options of course.
• note: certain packages require download of a compressed file and decompressing that file into a specific folder. For instance the 'Arrays' package requires download and decompression of the downloaded file in the extensions. This can be done like so:
  • create a folder for the compressed files (jsut so things are organised): mkdir snapshots
  • move into said folder: cd snapshots
  • in the case of 'Arrays', download the package: wget https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/Arrays-REL1_38-6ac129a.tar.gz
  • decompress that file into the extensions folder: tar -xzf Arrays-REL1_38-6ac129a.tar.gz -C ../extensions