Revision as of 12:14, 22 December 2016

MediaWiki has been installed.

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Getting started

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language
• Learn how to combat spam on your wiki

Special Pages

• All Pages

Changes Made to this MediaWiki Application

Installation

Wikimedia installed at Cognitive Computer

Changes Made to Media Wiki

December 22, 2016: Change 1: Preventing anonymous editing

Add this to LocalSettings.php

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

December 22, 2016: Change 2: Allowing only admins to create accounts

Add this to LocalSettings.php (requires 1.5.1)

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

December 22, 2016: Change 3: Do Not Allow Users to Register

Add this to LocalSettings.php (requires 1.5.1)

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

December 22, 2016: Change 4: Allow Uploads

To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory is writable, then set this to true:

$wgEnableUploads = true;

December 22, 2016: Change 5: Added Citation Extension

The extension files were already included in the directory wiki/extensions/Cite.

Added the following to the LocalSettings.php file:

require_once( $IP.'/extensions/Cite/Cite.php' );

December 22, 2016: Change 6: Installed the Template:Reflist

Went to Template:Reflist on Wikipedia

Clicked on "View Source" and copied the source

Created a new page: Template:Reflist

Copied the source.

It works.

Changes that Need to Be Made

Change Logo

Created an 135 by 135 png logo

Uploaded it to /www/skins/common/images/

directory and renamed it wiki.png

Changes on 12-20-2007

Change 7: Allow Users to Register - This Change has been superceded by Change 10

Add this to LocalSettings.php (requires 1.5.1)

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = true;

• This Change has been superceded by Change 10

Change 8: Do Not Allow Users to Create New Pages

Add this to LocalSettings.php

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;

Changes on 12-22-2007

Change 9: Give the Administrator Permission to Create New Pages

Add this to LocalSettings.php

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createpage'] = true;

Changes on 09-26-2012

Change 11: Upgraded Mediawiki Version from 1.10 to 1.19.1

Contracted with Siteground to upgrade my MediaWiki Version from 1.10 to the latest stable version 1.191 so that I would be ablt tostart using the "html" tag which was implemented in version 1.3.4

• See Mediawiki html tag info

My Statement of Work to SiteGround

STATEMENT OF WORK

1. Upgrade my MediaWiki Site from V1.10 to the latest stable version which I believe is 1.19.0

2. Implementing the nine changes I have made to MediaWiki listed at:

http://researchandideas.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Pickens

3. Implement the "html" tag in the upgrade

4. Perform a backup to my site before upgrading to V1.19

5. Ensure that all my pages are migrated successfully to the new version

Changes on 01-23-2014

Change 12: Manual:RevisionDelete

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RevisionDelete

Added to LocalSettings.php

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deletelogentry'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deleterevision'] = true;