User:Rehman/MediaWiki

Over the next few months, I plan on doing some demos on how organisations can use MediaWiki. This page is where I will be storing my own notes (hence it will look messy/incomplete).

The demos will be done on https://wiki.rehman.website/. All uploaded content are dummy content, and the main domain and subdomains were purchased with the intention of being disposable.

Quick links and notes

 * Pre-install checks:
 * Clear old files from domain/subdomains/directories
 * Clear old database/users as required
 * Recheck SSL
 * Download → Installation guide → Config script → System administration → Upgrading → Uninstallation
 * Ideal root folder setup (on shared server):
 * Install MediaWiki in a subdirectory :  (public:  )
 * Never install in  subdirectory; use   or anything else
 * Files and/or deleted files could be located outside the root:
 * Before running MediaWiki installer. Consider extracting all required extensions, so that they may all be installed at once automatically.

Extensions included within MW 1.35.0
The below extensions come with the main MediaWiki installer (v1.34.2). Install all of them (as some of them requires others):


 * Extension:CategoryTree
 * Extension:Cite
 * Extension:CiteThisPage
 * Extension:CodeEditor
 * Extension:ConfirmEdit
 * Extension:Gadgets
 * Extension:ImageMap
 * Extension:InputBox
 * Extension:InterwikiSorting (for multiple wikis only)


 * Extension:LocalisationUpdate
 * Extension:MultimediaViewer
 * Extension:Nuke
 * Extension:OATHAuth (update.php required)
 * Extension:PageImages
 * Extension:ParserFunctions
 * Extension:PdfHandler
 * Extension:Poem
 * Extension:Renameuser


 * Extension:Replace Text
 * Extension:Scribunto (see additional steps)
 * Extension:SpamBlacklist
 * Extension:SyntaxHighlight
 * Extension:TextExtracts
 * Extension:TitleBlacklist
 * Extension:WikiEditor
 * Extension:VisualEditor

Suggested extensions

 * Extension:AbuseFilter (update.php required)
 * Extension:AdvancedSearch
 * Extension:CirrusSearch
 * Extension:Elastica
 * Extension:AntiSpoof (update.php required) (not tested)
 * Extension:Capiunto (not tested)
 * Extension:CheckUser
 * Extension:CLDR
 * Extension:CodeMirror
 * Extension:Collection (not tested)


 * Extension:DynamicSidebar
 * Extension:Echo (update.php required)
 * Extension:GeoData
 * Extension:Graph
 * Extension:JsonConfig
 * Extension:Kartographer
 * Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion
 * Extension:LoginNotify
 * Extension:MassMessage
 * Extension:PageViewInfo
 * Extension:Popups


 * Extension:Quiz (not tested)
 * Extension:RevisionSlider
 * Extension:SandboxLink
 * Extension:SecurePoll (update.php required) (not tested)
 * Extension:StructuredDiscussions (update.php required)
 * Extension:Thanks
 * Extension:TimedMediaHandler (update.php required)
 * Extension:UploadWizard (configuration recommended)
 * Extension:UserMerge

Restricting access within MediaWiki
See Manual:Preventing access. The below are automatically set when selecting "Private wiki" during install.
 * Disable reading by anonymous users:
 * Disable anonymous editing:
 * Prevent new user registrations except by sysops:

Restriction direct access to uploaded files
See Manual:Image authorization Block malicious files (suitable if users and untrusted/unknown): Manual:Security
 * 1) Add   in the   file located in the   directory
 * 2) Add   to LocalSettings.php

Restricting bots crawling on the site
See Manual:robots.txt
 * 1) Create a   file in the web root
 * 2) Add the below lines within the file:

Also add

Hide index.php from URL
See Manual:Short URL and/or Manual:Short URL/Apache.

.htaccess:

LocalSettings.php:

Updating the logo
Read more at Manual:FAQ

Updating the favicon
Read more at Manual:FAQ

Adding more file types

 * To avoid the error  for   files, change   to   in.

Customising the sidebar
See Manual:Interface/Sidebar. Example:
 * MediaWiki:Sidebar
 * MediaWiki:Mw-mainpage-url
 * MediaWiki:Mainpage-description
 * MediaWiki:Tooltip-n-mainpage-description
 * MediaWiki:Accesskey-n-mainpage-description

Changing the Main page

 * Rename the page to the desired name, and update MediaWiki:Mainpage
 * Hide the page title? Use

Creating custom namespaces

 * See Manual:Using custom namespaces

Creating custom usergroups and rights

 * See Manual:User rights

Modify password policy

 * See Manual:$wgPasswordPolicy

Modify footer content

 * See Manual:Footer
 * MediaWiki:Privacy and MediaWiki:Privacypage
 * MediaWiki:Aboutsite and MediaWiki:Aboutpage
 * MediaWiki:Disclaimers and MediaWiki:Disclaimerpage
 * Manual:$wgMaxCredits

Others

 * Cpanel: Setup email and/or forwarders for the $wgPasswordSender
 * Cpanel: Disable index viewing
 * Cpanel: Enable hotlink protection

MediaWiki interface pages

 * See Special:AllMessages for all system messages (MediaWiki.org examples)
 * MediaWiki:Loginprompt - To add a note on the login page
 * MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown and MediaWiki:Filedelete-reason-dropdown
 * MediaWiki:Edittools
 * MediaWiki:Licenses
 * MediaWiki:Mainpage and MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab and MediaWiki:Sitesubtitle
 * MediaWiki:Sidebar
 * MediaWiki:Upload-default-description

To do

 * Manual:User rights
 * How to setup pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/w/docs