MediaWiki

General

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

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future/The_big_picture

• Documenting With MediaWiki - [1]

Setup

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

• MediaWiki:Sidebar
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Tagline_(Site_Subtitle)

Nginx

• Manual:Short URL/wiki/Page title -- nginx rewrite--root access
• Manual:Short URL/Page title - nginx, Root Access, PHP as a CGI module

• http://blog.bigdinosaur.org/mediawiki-on-nginx/

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

• 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://will.thestranathans.com/post/1697306231/git-for-backups

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

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Reduce_size_of_the_database

Configuration

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

• WP: MediaWiki_extension
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Robots.txt

Caching

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Cache

$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;
  PHP acceleration, i.e., APC

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Varnish_caching

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Purge

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PurgeList.php

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

• WP: Wikipedia:Cheatsheet

• WP: Help:Table
  • WP: Help:Basic_table_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
|}

• WP: Help:HTML_in_wikitext

• https://wincent.com/products/wikitext

ToC

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Table_of_contents

__TOC__

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TocTree - Extension for the expansion and collapsing of the table of contents

Hotkeys

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Keyboard_shortcuts#Default_Shortcuts

Content

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Collapsible_elements - Add the class mw-collapsible to any element (div, table, list, anything) to trigger it.

Interwiki

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

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

Categories

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

Theming and frontend

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

• http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/

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

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

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

• https://github.com/cmln/chameleon/tree/2.0-devel

Print.css

• MediaWiki:Print.css

Footer links

MediaWiki:Privacy
MediaWiki:Aboutsite
MediaWiki:Disclaimers

Layout

• 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:OpenID

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

• 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

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NoTitle
  • https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FNoTitle

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

WYSIWYM

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

• 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

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

• http://canidu.com/etherwiki-howto.html

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future/Real-time_collaboration

Upload

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MsUpload

Users

Signup

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InviteSignup

Login

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/AuthPlugin

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialLogin

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WPMW - wordpress auth bridge

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

• https://github.com/aaronpk/IndieAuth-MediaWiki

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Persona
  • https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Persona
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879460

• 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

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

• Manual:$wgGroupPermissions

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

• 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

• 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' );

Resources

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader

• 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/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
  • 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;

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist
  • not tried

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BlockAndNuke
  • https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-BlockAndNuke

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SmiteSpam - provides a special page "Special:SmiteSpam" helping administrators identify and delete spam pages.

• https://superuser.com/questions/100452/mass-rollback-on-mediawiki

• https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-DeleteBatch

Tools

• http://www.nozicaa.com/fr/page.content/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargements#Mediawiki

• WP: Wikipedia:Tools

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

• http://robertelwell.info/blog/mediawiki-more-than-wikipedia/

• http://wikiapiary.com/

Visualization

• http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_visualization_tools

• http://viskoda.viktor-dite.de/tools/ibms-history-flow-wiki-visualisation/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baVQ5MPcXaI

• https://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:gource_analysis

IRC bots

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:IRC_RC_Bot

Templates

• WP: Template:Col-begin-small

URL

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl

API

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats

Archive

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Memento

• http://mementoweb.org/depot/

SEO

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:GenerateSitemap.php

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

• http://semantic-mediawiki.org
  • http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Data_visualization
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki
  • http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiNode

• http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries

• WP: Wikidata

• WP: DBpedia

• http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

• http://www.kennel17.co.uk/testwiki/WikiDB/Tutorial

• http://discoursedb.org/wiki/Main_Page

• http://aksw.org/Projects/OntoWiki.html

JSON

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

• http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Serialization_(JSON)

• http://jsonwidget.org/wiki/JsonData
  • https://github.com/robla/mediawiki-jsondata
  • https://github.com/atdt/mediawiki-jsondata - newer fork

Flow

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal

• http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/flow