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

Installation & Upgrading

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

Basics:

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

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

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

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