Talk:MediaWiki in Depth/classnotes

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Developer

extentsions

backups

cataloging

organizing

security

  keep people from seeing certain pages

command line

bots

debian based

apache/mysql/php5.4

password is pass

php based languange that runs mediawiki

sudo aptitude install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql mysql-server mysql-client

localhost # to test if php is seen

/var/www apache2 created this, home directory of web server

localhost/mw

costumes.org

wikidb is the database name L: wikiuser P: samplePassword

wiki credentials L: dave P: davepass

extention: visualeditor

localsettings.php main config file, browser helps generate it, but you can manually edit it later

interwiki

  seperate instacces of wiki, linked together

private wiki, public wiki,

by itself, mediawiki isn't good on permissions, use interwiki to make things more secure.

Namespace, for permissions

500 php files make up mediawiki

localsettings file gets read each time a user does anything in wiki, (not a one time read by the mediawiki app itself, but users

important directories

../extentions/
../skins	/

/var/www/mw

user@debian:/var/www/mw$ lr ext*
total 4
-rw-rw-r--  1 997 1001 1178 Aug 27 21:44 README
drwxr-xr-x  3 997 1001  180 Aug 27 21:44 PdfHandler
drwxr-xr-x  3 997 1001  160 Aug 27 21:44 Poem
drwxr-xr-x  3 997 1001  280 Aug 27 21:44 Nuke
drwxr-xr-x  5 997 1001  620 Aug 27 21:44 ConfirmEdit
drwxr-xr-x  4 997 1001  200 Aug 27 21:44 SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
drwxr-xr-x  3 997 1001  240 Aug 27 21:44 ParserFunctions
drwxr-xr-x  4 997 1001  260 Aug 27 21:44 SpamBlacklist
drwxr-xr-x  4 997 1001  200 Aug 27 21:45 WikiEditor
drwxr-xr-x  3 997 1001  280 Aug 27 21:45 Gadgets
drwxr-xr-x  5 997 1001  240 Aug 27 21:45 TitleBlacklist
drwxr-xr-x  6 997 1001  280 Aug 27 21:45 LocalisationUpdate
drwxr-xr-x  3 997 1001  180 Aug 27 21:45 Interwiki
drwxr-xr-x  3 997 1001  140 Aug 27 21:45 InputBox
drwxr-xr-x  4 997 1001  260 Aug 27 21:45 Cite
drwxr-xr-x  3 997 1001  180 Aug 27 21:45 ImageMap
drwxrwxr-x 18 997 1001  380 Aug 27 21:45 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 997 1001  340 Aug 27 21:45 Renameuser
drwxr-xr-x 13 997 1001  840 Aug 29 10:39 ..

how to tell what extentions are loaded

http://localhost/mw/index.php/Special:Version

easier to NOT do a export import of your old wiki intoyour new wiki

do upgrades, maybe a version to jump to first, then get to your final version

backups images and DB images are in the images directory

../maintenance

   helper scripts for mediawiki,  run from command line

defaultsettings.php loads first, every single setting is listed here, where it then localsettings gets loaded localsettings.php,

colon pages: how to find them

850 extentions serious search, good extention

usage stats

bots auto block Ips sustain wiki automatically enforcement

mediawiki has api

special pages

api

python wiki bo

 framework for manking your own bot
 link checker?

templates

link checker

table of contents if you use headers, tOC automatically created

rendering parser

teawiki better for bold and italics

github. Markdown files.

Indentation; colon

talk pages

magic words current date currnet

double bracket internal link pagename single bracket external link

name space

main page talk user file template

transcluded template link

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_margin.asp

patroling watching lets you review someone you don't know, making edits

mass move of pages id pages that havn't been updated in ## time? List abonded pages

move a bunch a files

add a category to 300 pages

can you have numerous categories for a page?

Top 10 admin tasks

redirects

images files, only can upload images

monitor mediawiki processes

log files, rotate apache. Error

special pages http://localhost/mw/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar

• navigation
  • mainpage|mainpage-description
  • recentchanges-url|recentchanges
  • randompage-url|randompage
  • helppage|help
  • link|mylink
• SEARCH
• TOOLBOX
• LANGUAGES

dave

sql
enter into db name
show tables;
use wikidb