User talk:Al Maghi/Industrialization guide

At the moment the major difficulty is about processing not the install, neither the configuration, but the first-level-content import. MediaWiki lacks of a full-packed Dump, with minor template such as | and minor js and css such as gadget scripts.--almaghi 15:54, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Add some images
 * Add the internal links
 * Format the page
 * Categorize
 * Write a "see also/footer" section
 * What template to import ?
 * What JS / CSS to import ?

We should stick with MediaWiki's naming convensions for built-in accounts
We really shouldn't use super-user; maybe use wiki-administrator? --Ryan lane 15:12, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. Wiki-administrator with SSH-ftp access. --almaghi 19:06, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Installation instructions should be pulled out of this document
We should point to MediaWiki's installation instructions instead of writing them here. The installation instructions may change over time, and this document will fall out of date. --Ryan lane 15:12, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Do not recommend web-based maintenance extensions
Extensions like Maintenance and MaintenanceShell (the latter of which isn't even in MW subversion) are horribly unsupported and liable to break. Especially with the pending maintenance-work branch, these extensions will cease to even work as-is. Suggest removal of all suggestions to use these. ^demon 15:37, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok. See also User:^demon/maintenance-work. --almaghi 17:55, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Moreover FTP should be dead dead dead dead dead. SSH works fine, is secure (connection) and lets them run maintenance scripts. – Nikerabbit 15:43, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * So let's switch to SSH file transfer protocol.--almaghi 17:55, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

OpenSearchXml?
Does this extension even need to be installed anymore, or is this supported in core (I could've sworn it was...) ^demon 20:01, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm pretty sure in all newer versions of MediaWiki this is built in. --Ryan lane 21:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok. Indeed there's this file opensearch_desc.php into phase3, but is it into 1.15 release notes, neither phase3 release notes yet. I let it at the moment. almaghi 12:14, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Enterprise Bundle
Great work on this! I'm wonder, is there a MediaWiki Enterprise Bundle, along the same lines as Semantic Bundle? - Borofkin 11:05, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Not really. There's OmCollab, a bundle with MediaWiki, Wordpress, bookmarks and forum. (See also: MediaWiki LocalSettings on OmCollab installation)

Possible Typo
Hi there. Just been following instructions on industrializing our MW installation. The line: $wgMathPath = "{$wgUploadPath}/math"; Gave me problems. This is the 'default value' as set in setup.php, and uses the default value of $wgUploadPath. If neither of these are overriden, these are both 'false' at the point Localsettings.php is read. However if you just define $wgMathPath, then $wgUploadPath does not make sense at the time of the expansion, and LaTex fails to render (just the alt-text is displayed). As your line is the default, I would recommend leaving it out (as I have done successfully), rather than defining $wgUploadPath too. However I'll leave that to someone more knowledgeable than me to decide what's best.

212.84.107.25 19:43, 12 August 2009 (UTC) AndyY