Mediawiki

Useful functionality

Category
Attributes.
Meta tags.

Installation

yum -y install php-eaccelerator php-mysql

Useful links.

Which version and which extensions.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version

Frequently Asked Questions.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ

Create templates.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates

Grant permission.

http://anden.ongame.com/wiki/index.php/Special:UserRights

Enable uploads.

# Enable uploads
$wgEnableUploads       = true;

Installation Lucene.

Download binaries from:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search
Put it in some directory and configure the following options.

Edit lsearch.conf file:

* MWConfig.global - put here the URL of global configuration file (see below), e.g. file:///etc/lsearch-global.conf
* MWConfig.lib - put here the local path to lib directory, e.g. /usr/local/search/ls2/lib
* Indexes.path - base path where you want the deamon to store the indexes, e.g. /usr/local/search/indexes
* Localization.url - url to MediaWiki message files, e.g. file:///var/www/html/wiki/phase3/languages/messages
* Logging.logconfig - local path to log4j configuration file, e.g. /etc/lsearch.log4j

lsearch.conf

MWConfig.global=file:///opt/ls2/lsearch-global.conf
MWConfig.lib=/opt/ls2/lib
Indexes.path=/opt/ls2/indexes
Localization.url=file:///var/www/html/wiki/languages/messages
Logging.logconfig=/opt/ls2/mwsearch.log4j

lsearch-global.conf

Edit lsearch-global.conf file. Each of these sections needs to be updated to use the correct host name and database.
[Database]                                                                                                         
mediawiki : (single) (language,en) (warmup,10)                                                                     
[Search-Group]                                                      
anden.ongame.com : mediawiki                                        
[Index]                                      
anden.ongame.com : mediawiki                 
[Index-Path]
<default> : /mwsearch
[OAI]
[Properties]
KeywordScoring.suffix=wiki wikilucene wikidev
ExactCase.suffix=wiktionary wikilucene

[Namespace-Prefix]
all : <all>

Build the index. To be able to use dumpBackup.php you need to configure AdminSettings.php.

#!/bin/bash
LUCENEPATH=/opt/ls2/
WIKIPATH="/var/www/html/wiki/"
WIKIdumpBackup="/opt/ls2/mediawiki.xml"
#exec 1> /dev/null
#exec 2> /dev/null
php ${WIKIPATH}/maintenance/dumpBackup.php --current --quiet > $WIKIdumpBackup
java -cp ${LUCENEPATH}/LuceneSearch.jar org.wikimedia.lsearch.importer.Importer -s $WIKIdumpBackup mediawiki

Update index regulary. (cron)

# Update index for Lucene search engine.
0,15,30,45 * * * *    /opt/ls2/cron

Integrate to mediawiki

download the following extension:    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch

Add the following to your: Add the following to your LocalSettings.php:

$wgSearchType = 'LuceneSearch';
$wgLuceneHost = 'localhost';
$wgLucenePort = 8123;
require_once("extensions/MWSearch/MWSearch.php");

LDAP login

Download extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication

# Enable LDAP authentification.
require_once( "extensions/LdapAuthentication.php" );
$wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin();
$wgLDAPDomainNames = array( "ONGAME" );
$wgLDAPServerNames = array( "ONGAME"=>"ad.ongame.com" );
$wgLDAPSearchStrings = array( "ONGAME"=>"USER-NAME@ongame.com" );
$wgLDAPEncryptionType = array("ONGAME"=>"clear");
$wgLDAPUseSSL = false;
$wgLDAPUseLocal = false;
$wgMinimalPasswordLength = 1;

wiked installation

Download and put under extensions.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets

Update your own Gadget-wikEd.js.

http://anden.ongame.com/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Gadget-wikEd.js

Description of gadget.

http://anden.ongame.com/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Gadget-wikEd

Which gadgets should be installed

http://anden.ongame.com/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition
* wikEd|wikEd.js

Terminology

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Terminology

Create extensions/Terminology/Terminology.php

# Enable Terminology.
require_once( "extensions/Terminology/Terminology.php" );

Update the following side with explained words. http://anden.ongame.com/wiki/index.php/Terminology

Support single line definitions
;ITOG:IT Operation Games
And multi-line definitions
;HTTP
:HyperText Transfer Protocol

Allow other file types.

Change the following array to contain the files you want.

$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'pdf', 'txt' );

Search suggestion

# Suggestion in search.
$wgEnableMWSuggest = true;