Wiki stuff

From Shiu Lab

Contents 1 Wikitext 2 Useful forums 3 Modifying the looks and feels 4 About uploading files 5 User right configuration 6 User group 7 Server aspects

Wikitext

• For a great intro on how to modify wiki pages, check out the tutorial in Wikipedia. Also, here is some user wikitext examples.
• Extended image syntax
• Create image link
• Template_talk:click: doesn't work
• Navigational image
• HTML color names, Web colors
• FCKeditor

Useful forums

MWUsers.com

A nice forum with a bunch of helpful hangouts.

Modifying the looks and feels

• Personal page with mediawiki
• Replace logo: LocalSettings.php, modify #wgLogo
• Change sidebar: modify special page MediaWiki:Sidebar
• Change color scheme: modify main.css in the skin folder
• Change footer,Footer,
• Modify URL: eliminate index.php

About uploading files

Check this out.

User right configuration

• Add new user:
  • Login as a sysop/admin then use Special:Userlogin to add the new user account.
• Special:Userrights
• See mediawiki helps on: Help:User_rights, Help:Configulation_settings and Setting user right.

• We don't want anonymous account creation, read or write access. The following are included in the LocalSetting.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createaccount']   = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['read']            = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['edit']            = false;

• Under this setting, account creation require first login as sysop, then go to Special:Userlogin to setup a new account.
• Also, non sysop can only create pages that link to their personal page but not the core content. Haven't figure out how to do this yet.
• To change password:
  1. Go to shiulab cpanel
  2. Click on MySQL, browse to the end and select phpMyAdmin
  3. Select wikidb
  4. Click on the "SQL" tab then provide the following info:

UPDATE user SET  
user_password=md5(concat(user_id,'-',md5('mynewpassword')))
where user_name ='WikiSysop' ;

User group

• To change user's groups:
  • Browse to your wiki
  • Make sure to be logged in as a sysop
  • Click on 'special pages' in the lower left corner
  • Scroll to the bottom of that page and click on 'User Rights Management'
  • Enter the user's username to be changed
  • Add them to the groups you would like (you can CTRL-click to select more than one group at a time)
• Adding users to the 'restrict' group allows them to both view and restrict pages
• Adding users to the 'view restrict' group allows them to only view restricted pages

Server aspects

• Wanted to disable directory browsing. Add the following line to .htaccess: