MediaWiki

MediaWiki

MediaWiki - http://www.mediawiki.org

"MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application developed by and used on all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as on many other wiki websites worldwide. It is written in the PHP programming language with a backend database." [1]

Subpage Table of Contents

• MediaWiki/Categories
• MediaWiki/Code
• MediaWiki/Customization
• MediaWiki/Embed
• MediaWiki/Formatting
• MediaWiki/Installation
• MediaWiki/Merging Wikis
• MediaWiki/Notes
• MediaWiki/Password
• MediaWiki/Subpages
• MediaWiki/Table of Contents
• MediaWiki/Templates
• MediaWiki/Upgrade
• MediaWiki/Version

Dependencies

Apache and PHP: (for Ubuntu 22)

sudo apt install apache2 php mysql-server mysql-client

For covenience:

sudo ln -s /var/www/html /www

Test php:

echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /www/phptest.php

Installation & Upgrading

For Installation and Upgrading procedures, see MediaWiki/Installation article.

Basics:

wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.tar.gz
tar -zvxf mediawiki-1.41.0.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.24.1  wiki
cd wiki
sudo chown apache mw-config

http://example.com/wiki/mw-config/index.php

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

Old 1.24.1 Reference

wget releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz
tar -zvxf mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.24.1  wiki
cd wiki
sudo chown apache mw-config

Clear History

cd maintenance
php  deleteOldRevisions.php --delete

ref: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php

MediaWiki Namespace

• MediaWiki:Aboutsite
• MediaWiki:Common.css
• MediaWiki:Common.js
• MediaWiki:Mainpage
• MediaWiki:Opensearch-desc
• MediaWiki:Pagetitle
• MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage
• MediaWiki:Sidebar
• MediaWiki:Tagline
• MediaWiki:Tooltip-search