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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Robots.txt
  
 
== Usage ==
 
== Usage ==

Revision as of 03:51, 15 October 2012


Setup

Nginx

Upgrade

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

Configuration

Usage

Markup

Hotkeys

Theming and frontend

Footer links

MediaWiki:Privacy
MediaWiki:Aboutsite
MediaWiki:Disclaimers

Layout

Social

Content

Users and permissions

  • Special:UserRights - User rights management

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

Anti-spam

Tools