Rogerhc

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Hi! I'm Roger. I move slowly so the bird doesn't see me.

Here are my MediaWiki bookmarks and notes

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see http://unicode-table.com

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DB <-the magic

the dark magic ->> https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/index.html

the light magic ..> https://doc.wikimedia.org/

Advertising

• https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2014/10/13/displaying-google-adsense-in-mediawiki/ -- guyrutenberg's LocalSettings snip for Google Adsense ads
• Manual:Hooks

Bot notes

Out of date?

• Extension:MassEditRegex (beta) -- an alternative to Pywikipediabot?
• Manual:Pywikipediabot/Basic_use
• Use on non-WMF wikis
• Download from http://toolserver.org/~pywikipedia/nightly/ or see http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/
• Pywikipediabot was recommended for editing category names, at Stack Overflow with a note to:

(Check catlib.py for the category manipulation code, and category.py for an end-user-friendly mass category modification bot.)

Sysadmin Notes

Upgrading MediaWiki, backups, changing webhosts, etc.

• Manual:Configuration settings
• Manual:Using custom namespaces
• Manual:$wgAllowSpecialInclusion
• Manual:$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault

MariaDB / MySQL

• Intro -- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/introduction-to-relational-databases/
• Basics -- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/a-mariadb-primer/#the-basics-of-a-database
• Useful queries -- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/useful-mariadb-queries/

Maintenance

• Manual:update.php clears objectcache table, among other things
• Manual:Reduce size of the database -> Manual:Reduce_size_of_the_database#Compress_old_revisions <- check database size (roger_tp 367.98 MB), run this (done), check database size (____). May take cPanel a while to update the size list.

• /Customizations to my MediaWiki 1.9.2
• /Customizations to my MediaWiki 1.16.0

• /Backup trail

• /Teflchina upgrade MW 1.16.1 to 1.18.1

Upgrade

• /upgrade 1.35.1 LTS to 1.39.1 LTS (2023)
• /upgrade 1.31.1 LTS to 1.35.1 LTS (2021)

SSL self-cert test wiki

• /Create SSL self-cert in cPanel -- how I create free self-authenticated SSL certificate for my test wiki

DefaultSettings.php

includes/DefaultSettings.php --Don't edit--copy stuff to LocalSettings.php and modify there instead

Manual:DefaultSettings.php

Manual:Configuring file uploads

Manual:Configuring_file_uploads#Set_maximum_size_for_file_uploads

$wgMaxUploadSize = 1024*1024*100; # 100MB --default if not overridden by lower php.ini default of 2MB or 8MB (See above link)

auto-confirmed users (timestamp: 2020 MW 1.31)

Manual:User rights

Manual:Autoconfirmed users

Manual:$wgAutoConfirmAge -- default is 0; so set it to something

Manual:$wgAutoConfirmCount -- default is 0; so set it to something

Manual:DefaultSettings.php --Don't edit--copy stuff to LocalSettings.php and modify there instead

Default (snip from DefaultSettings.php):

// Implicit group for all logged-in accounts
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move-subpages'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move-rootuserpages'] = true; // can move root userpages
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move-categorypages'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['movefile'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['read'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createtalk'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['writeapi'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['upload'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['reupload'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['reupload-shared'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['minoredit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['editmyusercss'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['editmyuserjson'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['editmyuserjs'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['purge'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['sendemail'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['applychangetags'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['changetags'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['editcontentmodel'] = true;
	
// Implicit group for accounts that pass $wgAutoConfirmAge
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['autoconfirmed'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['editsemiprotected'] = true;

Customize in LocalSettings.php: 1. take away (set to false) move rights for group 'user', 2. give those instead to group 'autoconfirmed', 3. Set $wgAutoConfirmAge AND $wgAutoConfirmCount:

// Implicit group for all logged-in accounts
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move-subpages'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move-rootuserpages'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move-categorypages'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['movefile'] = false;

// Implicit group for accounts that pass $wgAutoConfirmAge AND $wgAutoConfirmCount
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['autoconfirmed'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['editsemiprotected'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['move'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['move-subpages'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['move-rootuserpages'] = true; // can move root userpages
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['move-categorypages'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['movefile'] = true;

// Seconds since 'user' account created
$wgAutoConfirmAge = 86400*2; // two days

// Edit count
$wgAutoConfirmCount = 2; // two edits

Pages

Compatibility -- PHP and Database requirements charts

Short URL

Manual:Short_URL -- Overview

Manual:Short URL/Apache -- Apache

https://shorturls.redwerks.org/ -- This configuration tool WORKS for MW1.35.1!

Apache

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/intro.html -- Apache mod_rewrite intro

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html -- Apache mod_rewrite doc

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/expr.html#vars -- %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -- the values of the named HTTP request headers.

Testing

Subpage titles

Subpage titles, initial /Subpage letter is case sensitive.

User:Rogerhc/Test + URLs

User:Rogerhc/test + URLs

Subpage links

Fancy subpage links:

/Test + URLs

Test + URLs

need work

Manual:Short URL

Manual

Manual:Using_custom_namespaces#Removing_custom_namespaces

Manual:Backing up a wiki

Category:Manual

Manual:Skins

Manual:Start

Manual:Contents

Manual:Combating_spam -- Rob Church started this page 4/30/2007

Manual:$wgSpamRegex

Help

m:Help:Calculation

Help:Extension:ParserFunctions

Help:Magic_words

Help:Start

Help:Contents

Help:Tables - User:Rogerhc/Tables 2 col

Extensions

Extension:CategoryTree