Mediawiki

TODO:

• Mediawiki presentation + screenshot
• Installation
• Page creation, links, wikitext
  • Targeting external links in a new window: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
• Email notification
• Special pages: Sidebar, monobook.css, etc.
  • Hack for targeting external links from Sidebar in a new window ($wgExternalLinkTarget doesn't work).
• Skins
• Extensions
  • VideoFlash plugin lets you embed YouTube videos.
  • Editor WYSIWYG: FCKeditor.
  • ContactPage lets you send emails to contact (and so you don't need to show your email address).
  • Article Comments: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleComments

Installing FCKeditor with subversion

Go to your extension folder:

cd path/to/extensions

Download the FCKeditor with Subversion:

svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/FCKeditor

Then edit the LocalSettings.php and add the line:

require_once("$IP/extensions/FCKeditor/FCKeditor.php");

OpenID

Lets you login in several webs using the same account (OpenID, Google account, etc.).

Information sources:

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
• http://acacha.org/mediawiki/index.php/Mediawiki#OpenID
• Here's an example of configuration:
  • http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_OpenID_Mediawiki_extension

To install it:

• Dowload the snapshot for your specific version (and not from SVN).
• Follow the instructions in: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
  • Add path
  • Install PHP libraries: pear, gmp, curl, mcrypt

The initial configuration (LocalSettings.php) that appears in that last link is something like (changing "www.test.com" and /path/to/some/directory):

 # Load the OpenID extension
 require_once("$IP/extensions/OpenID/OpenID.php");
 # Set the URL for the MediaWiki installation.
 $wgTrustRoot="www.test.com";
 # Allow all by default
 $wgOpenIDConsumerDenyByDefault=false;
 # Set the store type to file
 $wgOpenIDConsumerStoreType="file";
 # Set the location of where to store but not reachable by the web
 $wgOpenIDConsumerStorePath="/path/to/some/directory/";
 # Do the same stor thing for the OpenID server
 $wgOpenIDServerStoreType="file";
 $wgOpenIDServerStorePath="/path/to/some/directory/";

You must create directories for authentication data outside the public_html folder and make them writeable.