User:Rogerhc

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Hi! I'm Roger. I maintain the http://Teflpedia.com wiki.

Here are my MediaWiki bookmarks and notes

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DB <-the magic

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

 * 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

Maintenance

 * Manual:update.php clears objectcache table, among other things
 * Manual:Reduce size of the database


 * User:Rogerhc/Customizations to my MediaWiki 1.9.2
 * User:Rogerhc/Customizations to my MediaWiki 1.16.0


 * User:Rogerhc/Backup trail


 * User:Rogerhc/Teflchina upgrade MW 1.16.1 to 1.18.1

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

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

Imaginary being
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;

Custom -- 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/ -- Try this configuration helper tool

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

 * User:Rogerhc/Test + URLs <-- but I did not delete that. So why is it gone?
 * User:Rogerhc/test + URLs <-- okay, I deleted that and its talk page

table work with "rules"

 * User:Rogerhc/Sandbox

need work

 * Manual:Short URL

Manual

 * Manual:Using_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