====== Mediawiki ======

====== Upgrade Mediawiki ======
 #cd /home/mediawiki/
 #tar -cf mediawiki.tar public_html
 #cp mediawiki.tar /root
 
 #mysqldump  wikidb > mediawiki.sql
 
 #cd /root
 #wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.0.tar.gz
 #tar xvfz mediawiki-1.14.0.tar.gz
 #Copy across files, overwriting files!!
 #cp -R mediawiki-1.14.0/* /home/mediawiki/public_html
 
 #Run Update Script
 #cd /home/mediawiki/public_html/maintenance
 #php update.php --aconf ../AdminSettings.php
 
 #Troubleshooting "No superuser credentials" error
 #cd /home/mediawiki/public_html
 #cp AdminSettings.sample AdminSettings.php  
 #vi AdminSettings.php  
 
 #### Edit below lines to match your DB user and password ####
 $wgDBadminuser      = 'wiki';
 $wgDBadminpassword  = 'wikipassword';[[/code]]
 
 #After edit the AdminSettings.php. You need to reapply update
 #cd /home/mediawiki/public_html/maintenance
 #php update.php --aconf ../AdminSettings.php

Reference: http://wowtutorial.org/tutorial/174.html

====== Disallow Anonymous Editing and Accounts ======
 vi LocalSettings.php
 <nowiki>//</nowiki>add in at the bottom:
 <nowiki>//</nowiki> No anonymous editing allowed -
 $wgGroupPermissions[['*']]['edit'] = false;
 $wgGroupPermissions[['*']]['createaccount'] = false;

====== Install mediawiki from SVN ======
 mkdir ~/public_wiki
 cd public_wiki
 svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_16/phase3 .

Refs: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN

====== Install Message Box Templates for Mediawiki (mbox) ======
===== Install Mediawiki Parser Extension =====
 Read: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions  
 Download and extract into /extensions/ParserFunctions/
 
 vi LocalSettings.php 
 <nowiki>//</nowiki>add in the following at the end: 
 require_once( "$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" );

===== Add new Common.css Mediawiki Styles for message boxes =====
We are going to be copying and pasting the CSS styles for this. (i.e. CTRL+C and CTRL+V)

1. 
 Option 1: Take all of mediawiki's Common.css Style sheet and copy it. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&action=edit
 Option 2: Copy the cut down version I created here: http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/Mediawiki:Common.css.txt

2. Login and browse to: http://yourwiki.com/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css
This will give you a special page you can create and save. Paste (CTRL+V) the above Common.css styles into this new page.

===== Export and Import Template Files =====
Browse to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export  <br>
Export the following page, ticking all three boxes ( Include only the current revision, not the full history, Include templates and Save as file )
 Template:mbox
Save the xml file to your computer

Browse to: http://yourwiki.com/index.php/Special:Import and upload the xml file. <br> This imports and creates around 34 template pages.

===== Create/Edit/Add Message Box =====
Refs

http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?10179-How-to-impliment-ambox


http://glynor.com/blog/2010/05/the-trouble-with-ambox-and-mbox/#more-9

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Mbox


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ambox/doc


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ambox

http://docs.kunena.org/index.php/Template:Ombox