Mediawiki
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Cheatsheet
Install mediawiki on ubuntu
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Debian_GNU/Linux
Check requirement
php -v mysql -V # capital V
Enable tex for formula
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Enable_TeX
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Debian_GNU/Linux
- http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/mediawiki/mediawiki_math.htm
1. The following line is coming from an earlier bookmarked tutorial (not sure if it is needed anymore)
apt-get install mediawiki-math
2. Download Math extension from this link
3. Then you should extract the archive in the "extensions" folder within your MediaWiki installation directory.
4. Next, you need to add the following line to your LocalSettings.php file:
require_once("$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php");
sudo apt-get install ocaml cd extensions/Math/math make
6. The next step is to execute the "maintenance/update.php" script via shell:
php maintenance/update.php
Done. Go to test it. [Tested on mediawiki 1.22 on Ubuntu 12.04]. Navigate to "Special:Version" on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
Install mediawiki on debian
Link here [1]
Preformatted text with text wrap
Search 'Customized preformatted' on the Formatting page.
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; /* CSS 3 */ white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */ white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */ white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */ word-wrap: break-word; /* IE 5.5+ */ " > YOUR TEXT </pre>
Color format
Text is red.
<span style="color: red"> Text is red. </span>
Create tables
- http://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables
- The following is an example of a table from the main page of UbuntuGuide.org (link were not modified).
 |
Introduction |  |
Installation |  |
Packages and Repositories |
 |
File Managers |
 |
Desktop Add-ons |  |
Virtual Machines |  |
Games and Entertainment |
 |
Internet |
Auto timeout
See mediawiki.org. On ubuntu, change /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini.
"session.cahce_expire=180".
"session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440"
Colored font
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_color_formatting_help
<span style="color: red"> ..... </span>
Syntax highlight
Use the "syntaxhighlight" (for newer versions of mediawiki) or source (for older versions) tag for inline/non-inline syntax highlight. For example,
library(d3Network)
Source <- c("A", "A", "A", "A", "B", "B", "C", "C", "D")
Target <- c("B", "C", "D", "J", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I")
NetworkData <- data.frame(Source, Target)
d3SimpleNetwork(NetworkData, height = 800, width = 1024, file="tmp.html")
can be created by
<source lang="rsplus">
library(d3Network)
Source <- c("A", "A", "A", "A", "B", "B", "C", "C", "D")
Target <- c("B", "C", "D", "J", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I")
NetworkData <- data.frame(Source, Target)
d3SimpleNetwork(NetworkData, height = 800, width = 1024, file="tmp.html")
</source>
Note for some reason, when I use the syntaxhighlight tag (use syntaxhighlight instead of source tag), 'r' is not recognized on my mediawiki 1.22 although 'bash' works.
favicon
Move favicon.ico to the mediawiki folder and include the following line in the <LocalSettings.php>
$wgFavicon = "$wgScriptPath/favicon.ico";
Note that the attribute of the ico file has to be at least 644. If not, just run the following line
chmod 644 favicon.ico
To download a favicon, use the approach here. For example, to download the favicon icon from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ website, we just open the url https://wiki.ubuntu.com/favicon.ico.
The approach works is based on the assumption that the favicon.ico file name is not changed and usually located under the website root directory.
Change user's password
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords
Extensions
Google Analytics
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration#Installation