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)"

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)"

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"