MediaWiki
For details on the formatting schema on this wiki see here.
Software
Tables Generator
http://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables
HOWTO: Backup
XML and ZIP file
Importing
Pages
OLD SERVER
Generate the page dump in XML format...
php dumpBackup.php --current > pages.xml
NEW SERVER
Import the pages...
cp pages.xml ./data/html/ php importDump.php < pages.xml php maintenance/update.php php maintenance/rebuildall.php exit
https://www.hostknox.com/tutorials/mediawiki/pages/export-and-import#import-pages-via-ssh
Images
OLD SERVER
Generate the image dumps using dumpUploads.php, which creates a txt list of all image filenames in use...
mkdir /tmp/workingBackupMediaFiles php maintenance/dumpUploads.php \ | sed 's~mwstore://local-backend/local-public~./images~' \ | xargs cp -t /tmp/workingBackupMediaFiles zip -r ~/Mediafiles.zip /tmp/workingBackupMediaFiles rm -r /tmp/workingBackupMediaFiles
NEW SERVER
Unzip the files to your container filsystem...
unzip Mediafiles.zip -d /path-to/html/
Import the Images...
php maintenance/importImages.php tmp/workingBackupMediaFiles php maintenance/update.php php maintenance/rebuildall.php exit
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1002258/exporting-and-importing-images-in-mediawiki
HOWTO: Enable Hit Page Counter Hits
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters
HOWTO: EMBED VIDEO
Full guide here.
HOWTO: Update MediaWiki Software
This will update the whole mediawiki software and overwrite the files located in a subdirectory called 'wiki'. Please adjust according to your web hosting! This example is for 1&1...
cd /path/to/web/hosting/ tar -czvf wiki.tar.gz wiki/ wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.6.tar.gz tar -xzvf mediawiki-1.25.6.tar.gz -C wiki/ --strip-components=1 cd wiki/ php maintenance/update.php --skip-external-dependencies
This example is for Amazon EC2 running Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS...
cd /var/www/domain.com tar -czvf wiki.tar.gz html/ wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.6.tar.gz tar -xzvf mediawiki-1.25.6.tar.gz -C html/ --strip-components=1 cd html/maintenance/ php update.php
If you receive this error...
Error: your composer.lock file is not up to date, run "composer update" to install newer dependencies
...then you need to install the 'composer' binary...
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer cd /var/www/domain.com/html/ composer install composer update
...and now you can update the Wikimedia software...
cd html/maintenance/ php update.php
Thanks - http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-composer-on-debian-ubuntu-linux-server
HOWTO: Remove External Link Icons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:External_link_icons
div#content a.external
{
background:none !important;
padding: 0px !important;
}
HOWTO: Change CSS Colours
nano skins/MonoBook/main.css
pre, .mw-code {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #364554;
border: none;
padding: 0.5em;
white-space: pre-wrap;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
.postedit {
display: none;
}
pre a.external {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
pre a.external.free {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
pre a.external.free:visited {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
a.external.free {
background-image: none;
}
pre a:visited {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
div#content a.external
{
background:none !important;
padding: 0px !important;
}
HOWTO: Installation In Ubuntu Server
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MediaWiki
Enable Auto Complete In Search Box
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Enabling_autocomplete_in_search_box
WPtouch Mobile Skin
http://www.memorydeleted.com/?p=396
Simple Mobile Skin Auto Change
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend
Using Lists & Tables
http://www.packtpub.com/article/using-tables-and-lists-with-mediawiki
Changing User Password Via Command Line
cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/maintenance/ php changePassword.php --user=jsmith --password=myPas5w0rd
Restrict Editing Of All Pages
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
Wrapping Text In Code Lines
<pre style="white-space:normal;"> your long line of text here... </pre>
MediaWiki ShortURL Builder
~/.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?images/thumb/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2 [L,QSA,B]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?images/thumb/archive/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2&archived=1 [L,QSA,B]
~/LocalSettings.php
# short urls tweak ## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki; ## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this. ## For more information on customizing the URLs please see: ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL $wgScriptPath = ""; $wgScriptExtension = ".php"; $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; $wgUsePathInfo = true;
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
http://shorturls.redwerks.org/
Analytics
Matomo
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Matomo
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration
Lock Down Wiki
Disallow account creation (add the following to the end of LocalSettings.php)...
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createaccount'] = false;
Disallow reading and writing...
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
Links:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Administrator%27s_Handbook/Page_Protection
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access
HOWTO: Add Extra Buttons To Edit Page
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Customizing_edit_toolbar#How_do_I_add_more_buttons_on_the_edit_page.3F
HOWTO: Update Sitemap
sudo -i cd /var/www/html php maintenance/generateSitemap.php --fspath . --server http://wiki.indie-it.com --urlpath http://wiki.indie-it.com --compress=no touch sitemap*
