MediaWiki

Resources for installing and configuring Wikimedia MediaWiki.

intro

1. MediaWiki: "What Is MediaWiki?"

installing

1. MediaWiki: "Version Lifecycle"
2. MediaWiki: "Installing MediaWiki"

security

1. MediaWiki: "Securing Database Passwords"
2. MediaWiki: "Preventing Access (Removing the Login Link from All Pages)"

$wgHooks['SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal'][] = function ( $skinTemplate, &$links ) {
	unset( $links['user-menu']['createaccount'] );
	unset( $links['user-menu']['login'] );
	unset( $links['user-menu']['login-private'] );
	unset( $links['user-menu']['anoncontribs'] );
};
# https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preventing_access#Removing_the_Login_link_from_all_pages

linking

1. MediaWiki: "Apache Short URL"
2. NikkiWiki: "Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol Server Access (HTACCESS)"
3. DreamHost Knowledge Base: "Adding a Subdomain"

# The Uniform Resource Locator (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 (like "/w/index.php/page_title" to "/wiki/page_title") please see: "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/short_URL".
$wgScriptPath = "/w";
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
# https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/manual:short_URL/Apache#LocalSettings.php

timezone

1. NikkiWiki: "Personal Homepage Hypertext Preprocessor Runtime Configuration (PHPRC)"
2. MediaWiki: "Local Timezone"

# Timezone.
$wgLocaltimezone = "America/New_York"; # https://www.php.net/timezones.america.php
# https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$wgLocaltimezone

mainpage

1. MediaWiki: "Mainpage"
2. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki Mainpage"

citations

1. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki Site Subtitle"
2. MediaWiki: "Cite This Page"
3. NikkiWiki: "Cite This Page Content"

footer

1. MediaWiki: "Footer (Customizing the Built-In Items)"
2. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki (Privacy)"
3. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki (Privacy Page)"
4. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki (About Site)"
5. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki (Aboutpage)"
6. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki (Disclaimers)"
7. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki (Disclaimer Page)"

contact page

1. MediaWiki: "Confirm Edit"
2. MediaWiki: "Contact Page"
3. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki (Contact Page Label)"
4. NikkiWiki: "MediaWiki (Contact Page Text)"

wfLoadExtensions([ 'ConfirmEdit', 'ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha' ]);
$wgCaptchaClass = 'QuestyCaptcha';
# Add your questions using this format:
$wgCaptchaQuestions = [
	'question 1?' => 'answer 1', # Answers are case insensitive.
	'question 2?' => 'answer 2'
];
# https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

wfLoadExtension( 'ContactPage' );
$wgContactConfig['default'] = [
	'RecipientEmail' => 'example@example.net',
	'RecipientName' => 'Nicole Sharp',
	'SenderEmail' => null, # Defaults to "$wgPasswordSender"; may be changed as required.
	'SenderName' => null,
	'RequireDetails' => true,
	'IncludeIP' => false,
	'MustBeLoggedIn' => false,
	'MustHaveEmail' => false, # "True" means the user submitting the form must have an associated email address.
	'NameReadonly' => false,
	'EmailReadonly' => false,
	'SubjectReadonly' => false,
	'UseCustomBlockMessage' => false,
	'Redirect' => null,
	'RLModules' => [], # Resource loader modules to add to the form display page.
	'RLStyleModules' => [], # Resource loader Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) modules to add to the form display page.
	'AdditionalFields' => [
		'Text' => [
			'label-message' => 'emailmessage',
			'type' => 'textarea',
			'required' => true
		]
	],
	'FieldsMergeStrategy' => null
];
# https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ContactPage

following

1. MediaWiki: "NOFOLLOW Links"

recent changes

1. MediaWiki: "Default User Options"

sitemap

1. MediaWiki: "AutoSitemap"
2. MediaWiki: "Namespaces"

number of categories

1. MediaWiki: "Allow Slow Parser Functions"
2. MediaWiki: "Magic Words (Statistics)"

syntax highlighting

1. MediaWiki: "Highlight JavaScript (HighlightJS) Integration"
2. Microsoft GitHub: "HighlightJS Integration"
3. Microsoft GitHub: "HighlightJS Content Delivery Network (CDN) Release"
4. MediaWiki: "Syntax Highlight"
5. HighlightJS: "Demo"

syntax highlighting languages

1. HighlightJS Documentation: "Supported Languages"
2. Pygments Syntax Highlighter: "Languages"