Media Wiki Install Details

Configuring pretty urls

By Default the links look like

 http://ejpdocs.cuforrent.com/index.php?title=Install_Windows_Multipoint

But they would read better as:

  http://ejpdocs.cuforrent.com/wiki/Install_Windows_Multipoint

So I did (in what file(s)?)

 .htaccess:
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]

 LocalSettings.php:
   $wgScriptPath       = "";
   $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
   $wgUsePathInfo = true;

Enabling image uploads

# Enable uploads
$wgEnableUploads = true;
# Allow users to supply URL of file to import
$wgAllowCopyUploads = true.
# allow any file type, user may get a warning
$wgStrictFileExtensions = false;

Problem with thumbnail conversions

# convert is running fine, and debug output even shows the
# BLOB that gets inserted into the database, but still not working.
# Switch to using PHP built-in for thumbnailing.  May limt file formats
$wgUseImageMagick = false;

# Add Debug block in html output
#$wgDebugComments = true;

Installing Collections Extension

 cd extensions
 git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/Collection.git

 LocalSettings.php:
 require_once("$IP/extensions/Collection/Collection.php");
 $wgCollectionFormats = array(
   'rl' => 'PDF', # enabled by default
   'odf' => 'ODT',
   'docbook' => 'DocBook XML',
   'epub' => 'e-book (EPUB)',
   'zim' => 'Kiwix (OpenZIM)',
);

 #Bug in Collctions when wiki is at root of site:
 [~/ejpdocs.cuforrent.com/extensions/Collection]
 cuforrent@henry [48] $ git diff
 diff --git a/Collection.body.php b/Collection.body.php
 index db6b037..56e078a 100644
 --- a/Collection.body.php
 +++ b/Collection.body.php
 @@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ class SpecialCollection extends SpecialPage {
 
                 $response = self::mwServeCommand( 'render', array(
                         'metabook' => $this->buildJSONCollection( $collection ),
 -                       'base_url' => wfExpandUrl( $wgScriptPath, PROTO_CURRENT ),
 +                       'base_url' => "http://ejpdocs.cuforrent.com/",#wfExpandUrl( $wgScriptPath, PROTO_CURRENT ),
                         'script_extension' => $wgScriptExtension,
                         'template_blacklist' => $this->msg( 'coll-template_blacklist_title' )->inContentLanguage()->plain(),
                         'template_exclusion_category' => $this->msg( 'coll-exclusion_category_title' )->inContentLanguage()->plain(),
 @@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ class SpecialCollection extends SpecialPage {
 
                 $response = self::mwServeCommand( 'render', array(
                         'collection_id' => $collectionID,
 -                       'base_url' => wfExpandUrl( $wgScriptPath, PROTO_CURRENT ),
 +                       'base_url' => "http://ejpdocs.cuforrent.com/",#wfExpandUrl( $wgScriptPath, PROTO_CURRENT ),
                         'script_extension' => $wgScriptExtension,
                         'template_blacklist' => $this->msg( 'coll-template_blacklist_title' )->inContentLanguage()->plain(),
                         'template_exclusion_category' => $this->msg( 'coll-exclusion_category_title' )->inContentLanguage()->plain(),
 @@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ class SpecialCollection extends SpecialPage {
 
                 $response = self::mwServeCommand( 'zip_post', array(
                         'metabook' => $this->buildJSONCollection( $collection ),
 -                       'base_url' => wfExpandUrl( $wgScriptPath, PROTO_CURRENT ),
 +                       'base_url' => "http://ejpdocs.cuforrent.com/",#wfExpandUrl( $wgScriptPath, PROTO_CURRENT ),
                         'script_extension' => $wgScriptExtension,
                         'template_blacklist' => $this->msg( 'coll-template_blacklist_title' )->inContentLanguage()->plain(),
                         'template_exclusion_category' => $this->msg( 'coll-exclusion_category_title' )->inContentLanguage()->plain(),

Installing multiplte upload plugin

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MsUpload#Installation

This extensions makes it easier t upload and insert multiple images at a time. You can just drag and drop them on the the edit page, which is a much faster workflow than the traditional approach.

   $ cd extensions
   # 9.2 becuase we are using mediawiki 1.19
   $ wget http://www.ratin.de/wiki_ext/MsUpload_9.2.zip 
   $ uznip MsUpload_9.2.zip

Then edit LocalSettings to include it:

   vim ../LocalSettings.php

   ##Start --------------------------------------- MsUpload
   $wgMSU_ShowAutoKat = false;    #autocategorisation
   $wgMSU_CheckedAutoKat = false;  #checkbox: checked = true/false
   $wgMSU_debug = false;
   $wgMSU_ImgParams = '400px'; //default max-size for image insert
   require_once("$IP/extensions/MsUpload/msupload.php");
   ##End  --------------------------------------- MsUpload

Cite plugin

The Cite Plugin is what lets you put footnotes in wikipedia.

  $ cd extensions
  $ curl https://nodeload.github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Cite/legacy.tar.gz/REL1_19 -o cite_mw1_19.tar.gz
  $ tar -xzvf cite_mw1_19.tar.gz
  $ mv wikimedia-mediawiki-extensions-Cite-ab01085/ Cite
  $ vim ../LocalSettings.php

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