Setup of a MediaWiki

Each done for:

• bnw.bnwiki.org
• de.bnwiki.org
• en.bnwiki.org
• data.bnwiki.org
• sandbox.bnwiki.org

And before that:

• bnwiki.de
• bnw.bnwiki.de
• de.bnwiki.de
• data.bnwiki.de

First steps

MediaWiki wurde installiert.

Hilfe zur Verwendung und Konfiguration der Wiki-Software findest du im Benutzerhandbuch.

• Liste der Konfigurationsparameter
• Häufige Fragen zu MediaWiki
• Mailingliste zu neuen Versionen von MediaWiki
• Übersetze MediaWiki für deine Sprache
• Erfahre, wie du Spam auf deinem Wiki bekämpfen kannst

Templates

Templates need to be copied from Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_templates_by_task

Documentation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Documentation

Not quite working.

Strikethrough

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Strikethrough
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Strikethrough/doc

Changes to LocalSettings.php

• Change data properties of LocalSettings.php from 444 to 644

Logo

## The URL paths to the logo.  Make sure you change this from the default,
## or else you'll overwrite your logo when you upgrade!
$wgLogos = [
	'1x' => "$wgResourceBasePath/resources/assets/change-your-logo.svg",
	'1x' => "$wgResourceBasePath/resources/assets/WikiLogo.png",
	'icon' => "$wgResourceBasePath/resources/assets/change-your-logo.svg",
	'icon' => "$wgResourceBasePath/resources/assets/WikiLogo.png",
];

• Upload under /resources/assets/WikiLogo.png for each Wiki
  • Idea: Can all of them link to the same file?
• This changed from an svg to a png - might be worth getting a WikiLogo.png Not quite working.

Images

## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory
## is writable, then set this to true:
$wgEnableUploads = false;
$wgEnableUploads = true;

• Allow the usage of images: Set file attributes for the 'images' directory from '750' to '755'. Use FTP, potentially FileZilla, to access the files.

Language

## Site language code, should be one of the list in ./includes/languages/data/Names.php
$wgLanguageCode = "de";
$wgLanguageCode = "en";

Additions to LocalSettings.php

# Add more configuration options below.

### Settings ###
# Enable subpages in the main namespace
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_MAIN] = true;

### Extensions ###
## enhances the wikitext parser with helpful functions, mostly related to logic and string-handling
wfLoadExtension( 'ParserFunctions' );
$wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true;
## allows for embedding scripting languages in MediaWiki using the #invoke parser function
wfLoadExtension( 'Scribunto' );
$wgScribuntoDefaultEngine = 'luastandalone';

### Permissions ###
## Disable anonymous editing
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
## Disable anonymous api writing (automatically disabled if edit permission is removed)
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = false;
## Disable anonymous page creation
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;

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

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createpage'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deletelogentry'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deleterevision'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrats']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrats']['createpage'] = true;

Subpages

## Enable subpages in the main namespace
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_MAIN] = true;

Extensions

• ParserFunctions (needs to be installed, but this is allready done by the MediaWiki installer)
• Scribunto

## enhances the wikitext parser with helpful functions, mostly related to logic and string-handling
wfLoadExtension( 'ParserFunctions' );
$wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true;
## allows for embedding scripting languages in MediaWiki using the #invoke parser function
wfLoadExtension( 'Scribunto' );
$wgScribuntoDefaultEngine = 'luastandalone';

not used:

• TemplateStyles

## introduces a ‎ tag to specify that a stylesheet should be loaded from a wiki page
# wfLoadExtension( 'TemplateStyles' );

Permissions

If a user is member of different groups, then the user will get a right if it is granted to at least one of these groups even if it is not granted to their other groups. In other words: If one of the user's groups has a right, then it is not possible to take the right away using $wgGroupPermissions. Instead use RevokePermissions to revoke permissions.

List of groups

Group	Description	Default right
*	all users (including anonymous)	createaccount, createpage, createtalk, edit, editmyoptions, editmyprivateinfo, editmywatchlist, read, viewmyprivateinfo, viewmywatchlist, writeapi
user	registered accounts	applychangetags, changetags, createpage, createtalk, edit, editcontentmodel, editmyusercss, editmyuserjs, editmyuserjson, minoredit, move, move-categorypages, move-rootuserpages, move-subpages, movefile, purge, read, reupload, reupload-shared, sendemail, upload, writeapi
autoconfirmed	registered accounts at least as old as $wgAutoConfirmAge and having at least as many edits as $wgAutoConfirmCount	autoconfirmed, editsemiprotected
bot	accounts with the bot right (intended for automated scripts)	autoconfirmed, autopatrol, apihighlimits, bot, editsemiprotected, nominornewtalk, suppressredirect, writeapi
sysop	users who by default can delete and restore pages, block and unblock users, et cetera	apihighlimits, autoconfirmed, autopatrol, bigdelete, block, blockemail, browsearchive, createaccount, delete, deletedhistory, deletedtext, editinterface, editprotected, editsemiprotected, editsitejson, edituserjson, import, importupload, ipblock-exempt, managechangetags, markbotedits, mergehistory, move, move-categorypages, move-rootuserpages, move-subpages, movefile, noratelimit, patrol, protect, reupload, reupload-shared, rollback, suppressredirect, unblockself, undelete, unwatchedpages, upload
interface-admin	users who can edit sitewide CSS/JS	editinterface, editsitecss, editsitejs, editsitejson, editusercss, edituserjs, edituserjson
bureaucrat	users who by default can change other users' rights	noratelimit, userrights
suppress		deletelogentry, deleterevision, hideuser, suppressionlog, suppressrevision, viewsuppressed

* (all users, including anonymous)

## Disable anonymous editing
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
## Disable anonymous api writing (automatically disabled if edit permission is removed)
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = false;
## Disable anonymous page creation
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;

Not used:

## Disable reading by anonymous users
# $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; 
## Prevent new user registrations except by sysops
# $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

user (registered accounts)

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

autoconfirmed (earned by users)

registered accounts at least as old as $wgAutoConfirmAge and having at least as many edits as $wgAutoConfirmCount

sysop (content and community admins)

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createpage'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deletelogentry'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deleterevision'] = true;

bureaucrat (user right guardians)

$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrats']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrats']['createpage'] = true;