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Intern tasked with a wiki project and I'm lost

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Vmaglion (talkcontribs)

Hello,

I have been tasked to make it easier for employees to create articles using our media wiki. I have been asked to make the text editing tools more like Microsoft Word, some kind of extension where I can create an article based out of prefilled templates, and then just anything else I feel would make Creating an article easier and more intuitive. any suggestions would be amazing. thank you very much!

88.130.116.55 (talkcontribs)

Which version of MediaWiki do you have installed?

For current versions I do not know of a fully working WYSIWYG Editor. However, newer versions come with WikiEditor for easy editing. It can be customized as detailed here: Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar customization.

You can also prefill the editing area with some text. E.g. have a look at this page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Au and click the button "Stelle deine Frage". This works with the URL parameters "preload" and "preloadtitle".

Something else you could do is to add a big, broad button on top of empty pages with something like "Create this page" or so on it.

Vmaglion (talkcontribs)

I dont know if I am missing somthing, or they just forgot to give me complete access, but they told me to use WinSCP and PuTTY to make the changes to the wiki, and then the person leading the task went on a 2 week vacation. I was not given access to the mediawiki application and am not sure how to apply extentions. I was given admin access to our Mediawiki page and can edit through the native editor. Is there somthing I am missing here? Should I be able to edit this stuff and jsut dont get it? Or was I not given enough resources?

Thanks, Intern NOOB

88.130.86.55 (talkcontribs)

WinSCP is useful when you have FTP access. PuTTY is for SSH access. In your installation, inside the file LocalSettings.php you will find the access data to the MySQL database; maybe you have phpmyadmin available on the server, if you want to access that. If with "not given access to the mediawiki application" you mean that you do not have an account, meaning you cannot log in to the MediaWiki user interface (e.g. on the page Special:UserLogin), then you can use the maintenance script createAndPromote.php to create yourself an account from the shell via SSH.

How extensions can be installed is explained here: Extensions.

Basically SSH, FTP and maybe an admin account inside MediaWiki are all you need.

Vmaglion (talkcontribs)

o alright...so now its a matter of finding the install...its making more sense now. I was being shown this project over a screensharing presentation from the UK. Thank you so much for the help.

88.130.86.55 (talkcontribs)

On the server search for one of the files, e.g. LocalSettings.php:

find / -name LocalSettings.php -print

Recent operating system versions do not require the print option because this is the default. To limit the search to a specific directory such as /var/www:

find /var/www -name LocalSettings.php -print

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