MediaWiki

General

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

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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools

Markup

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table

Config

• MediaWiki:Sidebar

Extensions

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

Skins

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

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