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?
 * There is Manual:Backing up a wiki. I would have put it on Sysadmin_hub if it were not protected. Maybe someone else can do it. --Myhr 15:53, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 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?
 * ConfirmEdit does this.

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

Login problems
I can't log in at all: I keep getting a message saying that cookies are not enabled, but they are. I'm the only sysop/beaurocrat and can't log in. 64.180.86.225 16:09, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

pdf version of docs
Where can i get the PDF version of docs.


 * As far as I know, no such thing exists at the moment. --HappyDog 12:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

ParserFunctions
tengo problemas con las ParserFunctions, para mi prueba de CeraWiki, he seguido las instrucciones de todas formas posbles, y nada. tengo instalado ubuntu. y la mediawiki es 1.10.1.

¿alguna sugerencia?. ¿donde se puede alojar?


 * You can find information on ParserFunctions here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions. Ask questions here:  Project:Support desk


 * Google Translation: Puedes encontrar la información sobre ParserFunctions aquí:  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions.  Puedes hacer preguntas de la ayuda aquí:  Project:Support desk  --Cneubauer 12:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Editing the editing page?
I have been looking for a way to edit the edit page of my MediaWiki. I wanted to add a box like on Wikipedia that allows insertion of various symbols, e.g. Greek letters. I'd also want to know how I can add all those extra buttons that Wikipedia has above the editing box to my MediaWiki site.

I haven't found this information anywhere though.

I'm using MediaWiki 1.10.x.

130.237.221.67 14:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Extension:CharInsert. — color probe — Talk  — Contribs 07:58, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Is there security to view edits before they post?
Is there a way to setup the wiki to email changes or a notification of changes before they are posted for all to see? Or do I have to clean up posts as soon as possible after they're posted?


 * "moderation" like that is contrary to the idea of a wiki. Generally the way to deal with vandalism & cruft is: revert it. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 20:52, 15 October 2007 (UTC)


 * FlaggedRevs extension does it anyway.


 * If the point is to avoid spam, read or this more official treatment

LAST ARTICLES
Hello,

Is there any extension that can show the last articles on the frontpage of your wiki ?

Thanks,

Bombaci


 * Several. Extension:News and Extension:DynamicPageList for example -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 20:50, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

multilanguage
I'd like to use MediaWiki as a kind of a CMS on my website (taking account of all vices and virtues of such a step).

Can I change the interface language ($wgLanguageCode) on fly and have a duplicated (or multiplicated) versions of the pages work in dependence of the language chosen by the user?

Howto : suppress an existing user.
How can I, as an administrator, delete a user (who's been inactive for months, for instance)?

--220.131.76.228

How do I allow any user to edit but the edited pages only updated on wiki after being approved by moderators?
I couldn't find a solution to my problem... I have implemented my own wiki using mediawiki-1.11.1 and want to add this moderator functionality in this.. where in the editted pages by the other users shall not directly get updated but should be brought to my notice first(moderator).. then after the decision of moderator they should be either approved or denied...kindly help me out by letting me know that is there any way to do so by either doing some modification in the pages of mediawiki or by adding some other code... thanks..Manas


 * Hey man,it's not posible. atleast a dont know any way of doing this. --Roger


 * FlaggedRevs does it, but be careful, you could kill your wiki if fly-by users can't edit and see the results immediately.


 * If the point is to avoid spam, see above and in particular use ConfirmEdit or reCaptcha.

Niklas Alexander Jørgensen
Hei hete Niklas A.Jørgensen å går på skiskyting å trived m d;) er en veldig gla person som like å gjøre alt mulig.;)

Blank Screen after upgrading to 1.12.0
Moved to Project:Support desk

Online demo
Is there an online demo so I can see how the administrative side of the software works? I'd like to know how I would administer it before I take the time to download it so that I can determine if this software is "the one." I'm looking for something for my intranet that does this type of thing, but there are many, many different ones available and I want to quickly determine if this is going to work for me.

Wikisports
I joined a new project called wikisports and I was the only user registered until a vandal came in and made me feel very much behind the times. Would someone here mind helping me develop admin skills so I can begin work on my newly discovered wiki? P.S. I have experience in editing on wikiversity. Thank you 79.184.13.78 16:48, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Since you're not actually an administrator on the wiki in question, there's little I can do to help you other than suggesting that you find or start a project with content and contributors. —Emufarmers(T 22:35, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I want to Install Media Wiki on a Virtual Machine like VmWare or MS Virtual PC. The Problem is that we are not sure If we should use Wiki or something Commercial like Robo Help So we want to check the pro and contra. Is there any way to get Wiki runable without using a USB Stick?

To host create a MediaWiki, do you need to host the contents on ones own linux computer? so that for the pages to be accessible that computer has to be on all the time?

Change default font in mediawiki
How can I change the default font of mediawiki which I installed?

my wiki: http://wiki.handheldusers.com/index.php?title=%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D9%87%D9%94_%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%84%DB%8C

I mean font of all texts.

thanks, Best regards,

please help me!!! --218.208.240.245 06:56, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Editing user accounts and putting them into user groups
Can this be done?

How to get suggestions in a search box
I wanted to enable the settings in my wiki to get the suggestion while typing the letters in a search box. It would help to increase the search opearation. In mediawiki administration help I got to know about the wgScriptExtension = ".php5"; variable(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableMWSuggest). It has to add to the LocalSettings.php. But even after I couldn't get the suggestion in my wiki @ searchbox. Please let me know about this.

WikiMedia CMS
Gibt es WikiMedia auch als CMS? Das bisherige "googlen" hat mich noch nicht aufgeklärt.

Considering Wiki for a Canadian E-learning Project
To whom it may concern,

As the IT Manager of the Canadian Council on Learning I was approached by a Director in our Organization interested in use a Wiki for the folowing project (please see his email below).

He was interested in http://wikigender.org/ that seemed to layout his mental picture for his project. If possible I would like to discuss Wiki with someone who has used it, implemented and maintained in an effort to understand all that is involve with Wiki and what we can expect to gain from it.

Thanks Jeremie Legault 613-786-3230 ext.233 jlegault@ccl-cca.ca

Thanks again for this, Jeremie. At this moment, we are still just exploring the feasibility and whether a Wiki on e-learning would be a good vehicle to disseminate and, most importantly, to engage stakeholders and the users community in ‘connecting’ on this topic. One of the recommendations of the E-Learning (to be released probably before the summer) is to generate a momentum on e-learning in Canada, sharing of resources (including creating a clearing house on e-learning research and links). From what I can see, it occurred to me that a wiki may be a good way to start addressing such recommendation. In regards to populating the wiki, we may be able to ask our colleagues in (Montreal) to assist us in identifying relevant materials that the wiki could have before we lunch it publically.

So, I guess, at this moment, I am interested in finding out the cost implications from a system point of view (eg – is there a software or license costs ? server ? etc). Also, from what I heard, there are public wikis and closed wikis where materials are being posted and reviewed by authorized assess only. Some organizations have both. I can also talk to as well to find out how successful those wikis are from a Communication point of view.

So, overall, my ‘vision’ is that CCL could be the ‘catalyst’ to get it started but then we will need to find out how could maintain it later once it is up and running (we may ask for example).

Thanks in advance