MediaWiki
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General
Setup
Nginx
- Manual:Short URL/wiki/Page title -- nginx rewrite--root access
- Manual:Short URL/Page title - nginx, Root Access, PHP as a CGI module
Upgrade
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/News - release info
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Update.php
Download latest, extract on-top of current. Be careful with overwriting if you have hacked a core theme.
tar xvzf mediawiki-1.19.1.tar.gz -C . --strip-components=1 php maintenance/update.php
Upgrade requires DB user grants for: select, insert, update, delete, alter, index
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=expandtemplates&text=http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/{{MW%20stable%20branch%20number}}/mediawiki-{{MW%20stable%20release%20number}}.tar.gz
Backup
change vars;
nice -n 19 mysqldump -u $USER --password=$PASSWORD $DATABASE -c nice -n 19 gzip -9 > wiki-$DATABASE-$(date '+%Y%m%d').sql.gz
Script
- http://serom.no-ip.org/index.php/Backup_du_SeRoM_Wiki - bash script, send backup to remote
- https://github.com/milkmiruku/backup-mediawiki
- https://github.com/milkmiruku/backup-mediawiki-remote
Compress
Configuration
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:System_administration
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extension
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
Caching
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL; PHP acceleration, i.e., APC
php purgeList.php --all
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Purge - extension adds a purge tab on all normal pages, allowing for quick purging of the cache.
Usage
Markup
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Header 1 ! Header 2 ! Header 3 |- | row 1, cell 1 | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 |- | row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |}
ToC
__TOC__
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TocTree - Extension for the expansion and collapsing of the table of contents
Hotkeys
Content
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Collapsible_elements - Add the class mw-collapsible to any element (div, table, list, anything) to trigger it.
Interwiki
Categories
Theming and frontend
Bootstrap
- https://github.com/armadillica/mediawiki-bootstrap - Minimal Mediawiki skin with Bootstrap 4
- https://github.com/answeropedia/BootSkin - A MediaWiki skin using Bootstrap 4 for project AnswersWiki.org
Print.css
MediaWiki:Privacy MediaWiki:Aboutsite MediaWiki:Disclaimers
Layout
Social
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenGraphMeta - provides OpenGraph protocol metadata for articles on the wiki for 3rd parties like Facebook to extract. The primary use for this extension is for any wiki that provides its users a button to "Like" pages on the wiki, especially if the wiki uses a custom default skin. As sometimes Facebook can extract undesirable parts from the page (known on some custom skins to potentially extract random images irrelevant to the content) providing this data gives Facebook clean data to display in likes, and cleans up the long title into a pair of clean site and page titles.
Content
WYSIWYM
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor - for WikiText markup based RDFa, linked with Parsoid wikitext parer project
Real-time
Upload
Users
Signup
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InviteSignup
Login
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WPMW - wordpress auth bridge
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureSessions
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SSLClientAuthentication
Permissions
- Special:UserRights - User rights management
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_access_restriction
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Restrict_access_by_category_and_group
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EditSubpages
Namespace protection
# Only allow autoconfirmed users to edit Project namespace $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_PROJECT] = array( 'autoconfirmed' ); # Don't allow anyone to edit non-talk pages until they've confirmed their # e-mail address (assuming we have no custom namespaces and allow edits # from non-emailconfirmed users to start with) # Note for 1.13: emailconfirmed group and right were removed from default # setup, if you want to use it, you'll have to re-enable it manually $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MAIN] = $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_USER] = $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_PROJECT] = $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_IMAGE] = $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_TEMPLATE] = $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_HELP] = $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_CATEGORY] = array( 'emailconfirmed' ); # Only allow sysops to edit "Policy" namespace $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editpolicy'] = true; $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_POLICY] = array( 'editpolicy' );
Resources
- Introducing Wikifunctions: first Wikimedia project to launch in a decade creates new forms of knowledge – Wikimedia Foundation [2]
Anti-spam
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit.git;a=snapshot;h=refs/heads/master;sf=tgz
- questy is very easy to set up
- can't get asirra to work, either through confirmedit or standalone extrension
# Protect shit require_once("$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php"); require_once("$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha.php"); $wgCaptchaClass = 'QuestyCaptcha'; $wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' => '123 + 1 =', 'answer' => '124' ); $wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' => '321 + 2 =', 'answer' => '323' ); etc. $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['skipcaptcha'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['bot' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true; // registered bots $wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true; $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true; $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; $wgCaptchaTriggers['create'] = false; $wgCaptchaTriggers['addurl'] = true; $wgCaptchaTriggers['createaccount'] = true; $wgCaptchaTriggers['badlogin'] = true;
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SmiteSpam - provides a special page "Special:SmiteSpam" helping administrators identify and delete spam pages.
Tools
Visualization
IRC bots
Templates
URL
API
Archive
SEO
php maintenance/generateSitemap.php \ --fspath sitemap \ --server http://mydomain.org \ --urlpath http://mydomain.org/sitemap
Tags
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiSEO - allows you to replace, append or prepend the html title tag content, and allows you to add common SEO meta keywords and a meta description.
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleRichCards - Automatically generates Google Rich Cards in JSON+LD format for mediawiki article pages.
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AdvancedMeta - extension allows setting the robots, keywords and description meta tags for MediaWiki, for SEO purposes
Data / semantic
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Schemas - a MediaWiki extension that allows for defining all the schema information about a "class", or data type - for naming, display, data input, and browsing - within a single piece of XML contained within a category page. This XML then is used to generate all the necessary additional pages needed to put the schema into effect, such as template pages and, for instance, if Page Forms is installed, form pages. The XML can be created and edited via a helper form, preventing users from having to generate or modify it manually.Page Schemas allows other extensions to define their own fields to add to the XML, using hooks.
Currently, the following extensions hook into Page Schemas:
- Cargo
- Page Forms
- Semantic MediaWiki
- Semantic Drilldown
- Semantic Internal Objects