User:Rogerhc

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Roger's MediaWiki.org bookmarks and notes

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
Rogers notes on 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

Teflpedia.org

 * Let' try this: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.2.tar.gz

Wikigogy.org
Sysadmin notes re my MediaWiki instance at http://Wikigogy.org
 * User:Rogerhc/Customizations to my MediaWiki 1.9.2
 * User:Rogerhc/Customizations to my MediaWiki 1.16.0
 * User:Rogerhc/Backup trail

Teflchina.org
Sysadmin notes re my MediaWiki instance at http://telfchina.org
 * 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)

Pages
Athena -- new skin under development for various devices

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:TimedMediaHandler NEW -- replaces OggHandler Extension
 * Extension:ArticleFeedbackv5
 * 2008 blog -- 20 MediaWiki Extensions You Should Be Using
 * Extension:ExpandCss
 * Extension:SubPageList2
 * Extension:TreeAndMenu
 * Extension:Multi-Category Search -- Form based intersect cats "Special:" page
 * Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) -- intersect cats
 * Extension:CategoryTree
 * Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki
 * Extension:FlashMP3
 * Extension:VideoFlash