Talk:Sysadmin hub

Ideas

 * Hi, I havent searched to deeply but I wish there was a section about how to backup mediawiki. For instance is a database dump adequate for completely restoring the wiki after a server fail?
 * Also, another issue to be covered could be administering individual articles (moving, protecting, etc.), because I cannot find protection instructions anywhere. Jonathon Reinhart
 * There's m:Help:Administration. Titoxd (?!?) 02:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm having trouble installinga PHP 5.2 on IIS6. Is there a walk-through step by step on how to set this up in order to follow up with mysql and wiki? Help

Look here for an PHP 5.2 on IIS6 installation. www.php.net/manual/de/install.windows.manual.php


 * Having spent half a day trying to get PHP running under IIS 6 to confirm a bug fix, I can strongly recommend against ever using IIS for any reason. :) Just install Apache... --Brion VIBBER 22:26, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

MS SQL
Will there be a MS-SQL support?


 * Probably not, but if you're willing to develop and support it we could include the files. Most likely it would see the same fate as Oracle support, though; incomplete, unused, unsupported, untested, unmaintained, eventually getting disabled beacuse it doesn't work anymore and then removed entirely. --Brion VIBBER 22:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

what administrative chores are required when running a mediawiki?
Mediawiki was recently recommended to me as a stable and full featured wiki. One of the areas of interest I have concerns what kinds of regular actions are needed by sysadmins in running the wiki.

Another has to do with locating utilities so that one can take a series of files and pre-load/populate a wiki with them.

Thanks for any tips you might provide.

MediaWiki Main page
Hey...I just installed the newest version of MediaWiki and have the homepage in progress. I noticed the tab says article whereas on Wikipedia and elsewhere it says Main Page. How can I change my main page to say that on the tab instead of article?

Maybe the page ought to explain that getting a regular account is advisable.
(or, if you are feeling bold, why not edit this page directly!).

The above sentence on the page can be confusing considering that the page is protected from editing by people who haven't signed in. This is merely an observation, but likely it would at the very least be useful to mention that purely by creating a regular account, editing is possible. -- Cimon Avaro 09:26, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Right, thanks for this hint! To keep the hub page as short as possible I removed that sentence now (explaning why and how to create an account seems a bit out of the scope of the hub concept) :-) -- :Bdk: 23:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

1. How to enforce the user to create account before adding or editing pages?

2. Is there a way to include Turing test (user has to type in the letters from the image) when user creates an account?

3. Right now I have to add at the end of every line. Is there a way around that (other than adding two line breaks?)

Proposed New Section : Administrative Chores
I'd like someone who can edit the Hub page to add a new section.

This section should say:

Administering a MediaWiki is an ongoing task. You should be prepared to:
 * Backup (and maybe restore!) the wiki regularly
 * Track the software for Security Updates
 * Manage user accounts (potentially blocking spammers, cleaning old accounts etc)
 * Remove spam and update spam filters