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Mediawiki

From Ollie's Web Site

1 Mediawiki stuff
2 about MediaWiki

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Mediawiki stuff

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Latest version

10/7/05 installed 1.5.0. Moved db password stuff outside web root. Special:Version Click here for current version.

Special:Specialpages lists a lot of the special pages available.

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User Rights

Describes how to] set user rights/privileges in v. 1.5.

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Restricting New Users (1.5 upwards)

# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

Note: New users will still be able to be created by sysops, in the following manner:

Go to [[Special:Userlogin]], when logged in as a sysop.
Click on "Create an account" to get to the account creation form.
Enter a username and an email address, and click the "by email" button.
The account will be created with a random password which is then emailed to the given address.

It may be appropriate to edit the text displayed when a non-user attempts to log in. This can be done at [[MediaWiki:Nosuchuser]], when logged in as a sysop. Use plain text without any special formatting, as the formatting is ignored and the text is literally rendered.

To prevent even sysops from creating accounts:

# Prevent new user registrations by anyone
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createaccount'] = false;

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Site-wide css

Add your site-wide css modifications to Mediawiki:Monobook.css.

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Skins

changing to custom skins eludes me. So far I have downloaded a couple of .css files and stored them, per instructions in skins/myskin/myskin.css. Get a really messed up page, as if no css.

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Nav Bar

change nav bar by editing MediaWiki:Sidebar - each line is a line in the navbar. Go to http://www.gacheson.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar for gillian's wiki.
- the first value is the page that contains the url to go to when the navbar entry is clicked.
- the second value is the page that contains the text that is displayed in the navbar.
so, for example, the following entry controls the photography section of the navbar:

* Photography
** OlliePhoto-url|OlliePhoto
** photo-url|photo
** LumLand-url|LumLand

To edit the values in these pages, edit MediaWiki:OlliePhoto-url, for example.

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Website

http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/Main_Page Good website]

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Images

Images
- upload via Special:Upload.
- link via [[Image:file.ext|placement-option|sizepx|alternative text]] where
  - placement-option = left, right, center, none.

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Config

/includes/DefaultSettings.php contains all the variables available for use in LocalSettings.php.

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Sitenotice

Sitenotice (9/18/05)
- Insert $wgSiteNotice = ":sitenotice" into LocalSettings.php
- Put appropriate notice text into Mediawiki:Sitenotice page.
- Text appears on top line of every page.

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