MediaWiki

General

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:System_administration
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker

Markup

• WP: Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
• WP: Help:Table

Tools

• WP: Wikipedia:Tools
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts

Config

Users and permissions

• Special:UserRights - User rights management

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access

• Manual:$wgGroupPermissions

Restrict editing of an entire namespace

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection

# 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' );

Anti-spam

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_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

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist

Layout

• MediaWiki:Sidebar

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HideSidebar

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PCR_GUI_Inserts

Social

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AddThis

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/Manual:Upgrading

Download latest, extract on-top of current;

tar xvzf mediawiki-1.19.1.tar.gz -C . --strip-components=1
php maintenance/update.php

Upgrade required DB grants for: select, insert, update, delete, alter, index

Backup

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki

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

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Megam0rf/WikiBackup
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mw_tools

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Restoring_a_wiki_from_backup

• http://serom.no-ip.org/index.php/Backup_du_SeRoM_Wiki - bash script, send backup to remote

• https://github.com/milkmiruku/backup-mediawiki