Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-8890195-20130507233620

i was going to use Mediawiki for my site's Wiki section but then i figured that since i was going to get the Dev Blogs outsourced to another site (like Wordpress maybe) i might as well do the same for the wiki and i had been reading a Wikia Wiki for a while (Type-Moon) and seeing how it was set up i figured that Wikia was the best place

now the plan was to set up a local install of Mediawiki to use as an experimental install where we would test out templates and stuff like that then copy and paste the pages into Wikia, this would also serve as a good backup incase.....in the incredibally impossible case that Wikia was to dissappear, or something like that

i began by copying this page (Search for Playable Saber (Fate/Extra) on the Type Moon Wikia site, can't post up links) and all it's used templates via the same method as i did with Wikipedia, this way i had working code to learn off from, i choose this page cause i like the top right part how the image could be switched over, the link to show and hide blocks and the slideshow slightly bellow it (the one that has Nero's Mother and Nero drinking the poison), ofcause there was problems, i don't get the links at the top of the character into, the show links are missing and i have the default slideshow (and the character info block is showing up on the left rather than the right but i think that's just CSS)

anyway, i only recently learned that Wikia is actully just Mediawiki with a whole lot of extensions and it was open source, i've tried downloading release-161 and installing it on my wamp server to do some tests but i can't get it to work, i keep getting an error saying "Error, Setup.php must be included from the file scope, after DefaultSettings.php" when i try and run the setup, so i'm wondering if it is at all possible to install an instance of Wikia on my local wamp server and if so, how? 