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<p>added a tiny bit of markup</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>http://training-course-material.com/training/MediaWiki_in_Depth<br />
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Developer<br />
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extentsions<br />
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backups<br />
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cataloging<br />
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organizing<br />
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security<br />
keep people from seeing certain pages<br />
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command line<br />
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bots<br />
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debian based<br />
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apache/mysql/php5.4<br />
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password is pass<br />
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php based<br />
languange that runs mediawiki<br />
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sudo aptitude install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql mysql-server mysql-client <br />
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localhost # to test if php is seen<br />
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/var/www apache2 created this, home directory of web server<br />
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localhost/mw<br />
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costumes.org<br />
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wikidb is the database name<br />
L: wikiuser<br />
P: samplePassword<br />
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wiki credentials<br />
L: dave <br />
P: davepass<br />
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extention: visualeditor<br />
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localsettings.php main config file, browser helps generate it, but you can manually edit it later<br />
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interwiki<br />
seperate instacces of wiki, linked together<br />
private wiki, public wiki, <br />
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by itself, mediawiki isn't good on permissions, use interwiki to make things more secure.<br />
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Namespace, for permissions<br />
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500 php files make up mediawiki<br />
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localsettings file gets read each time a user does anything in wiki, (not a one time read by the mediawiki app itself, but users <br />
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important directories<br />
../extentions/<br />
../skins /<br />
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/var/www/mw<br />
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<pre><br />
user@debian:/var/www/mw$ lr ext*<br />
total 4<br />
-rw-rw-r-- 1 997 1001 1178 Aug 27 21:44 README<br />
drwxr-xr-x 3 997 1001 180 Aug 27 21:44 PdfHandler<br />
drwxr-xr-x 3 997 1001 160 Aug 27 21:44 Poem<br />
drwxr-xr-x 3 997 1001 280 Aug 27 21:44 Nuke<br />
drwxr-xr-x 5 997 1001 620 Aug 27 21:44 ConfirmEdit<br />
drwxr-xr-x 4 997 1001 200 Aug 27 21:44 SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi<br />
drwxr-xr-x 3 997 1001 240 Aug 27 21:44 ParserFunctions<br />
drwxr-xr-x 4 997 1001 260 Aug 27 21:44 SpamBlacklist<br />
drwxr-xr-x 4 997 1001 200 Aug 27 21:45 WikiEditor<br />
drwxr-xr-x 3 997 1001 280 Aug 27 21:45 Gadgets<br />
drwxr-xr-x 5 997 1001 240 Aug 27 21:45 TitleBlacklist<br />
drwxr-xr-x 6 997 1001 280 Aug 27 21:45 LocalisationUpdate<br />
drwxr-xr-x 3 997 1001 180 Aug 27 21:45 Interwiki<br />
drwxr-xr-x 3 997 1001 140 Aug 27 21:45 InputBox<br />
drwxr-xr-x 4 997 1001 260 Aug 27 21:45 Cite<br />
drwxr-xr-x 3 997 1001 180 Aug 27 21:45 ImageMap<br />
drwxrwxr-x 18 997 1001 380 Aug 27 21:45 .<br />
drwxr-xr-x 4 997 1001 340 Aug 27 21:45 Renameuser<br />
drwxr-xr-x 13 997 1001 840 Aug 29 10:39 ..<br />
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how to tell what extentions are loaded<br />
http://localhost/mw/index.php/Special:Version<br />
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<br />
easier to NOT do a export import of your old wiki intoyour new wiki<br />
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do upgrades, maybe a version to jump to first, then get to your final version<br />
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backups<br />
images and DB<br />
images are in the images directory<br />
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../maintenance<br />
helper scripts for mediawiki, run from command line<br />
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defaultsettings.php loads first, every single setting is listed here, where it<br />
then localsettings gets loaded<br />
localsettings.php,<br />
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colon pages: how to find them<br />
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<br />
850 extentions<br />
serious search, good extention<br />
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usage stats<br />
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bots<br />
auto block Ips<br />
sustain wiki automatically<br />
enforcement <br />
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mediawiki has api<br />
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special pages<br />
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api<br />
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<br />
python wiki bo<br />
framework for manking your own bot<br />
link checker?<br />
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templates<br />
<br />
link checker<br />
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<br />
table of contents<br />
if you use headers, tOC automatically created<br />
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rendering<br />
parser<br />
<br />
teawiki better for bold and italics<br />
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github. Markdown files. <br />
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Indentation; colon<br />
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talk pages<br />
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magic words<br />
current date<br />
currnet <br />
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double bracket internal link [[pagename]]<br />
single bracket external link<br />
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name space<br />
<br />
main page<br />
talk<br />
user<br />
file<br />
template<br />
<br />
transcluded<br />
template<br />
link<br />
<br />
<br />
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_margin.asp<br />
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patroling<br />
watching<br />
lets you review someone you don't know, making edits<br />
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mass move of pages<br />
id pages that havn't been updated in ## time?<br />
List abonded pages<br />
<br />
move a bunch a files <br />
<br />
add a category to 300 pages<br />
<br />
can you have numerous categories for a page?<br />
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Top 10 admin tasks<br />
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redirects<br />
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images<br />
files, only can upload images<br />
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monitor mediawiki processes<br />
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log files, rotate apache. Error <br />
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special pages<br />
http://localhost/mw/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar<br />
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* navigation<br />
** mainpage|mainpage-description<br />
** recentchanges-url|recentchanges<br />
** randompage-url|randompage<br />
** helppage|help<br />
** link|mylink<br />
* SEARCH<br />
* TOOLBOX<br />
* LANGUAGES<br />
dave<br />
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<br />
sql<br />
enter into db name<br />
show tables;<br />
use wikidb</div>
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