QualityBox: a MediaWiki hosting service

Date and Time

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Location

MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Presenters

Greg Rundlett , founder of eQuality Technology - greg freephile com

Summary

A guided tour of QualityBox, a MediaWiki hosting service

Abstract

Greg Rundlett, founder of eQuality Technology, has created a hosted software service called QualityBox which is provides the wiki engine (MediaWiki) that drives Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia, QualityBox is instantly usable by the end-user. And like Wikipedia, it includes a huge number of configurations, extensions and customizations that make it supremely useful. Greg will take us on a tour of QualityBox, and the MediaWiki ecosystem to illustrate some of the features and capabilities that are available right “out of the box”.

Featuring:

• MediaWiki 1.31 LTS
• Visual Editor
• ElasticSearch (v5.6.10)
• Excellent Mobile support
• Modern and traditional layouts
• New dashboards
• Top to Bottom security upgrades
• Free SSL certificates
• Subdomain-based wiki farms
• And LOTS more.