User:Dave/Admin Notes

Manuals

• Manual:Configuration settings

Listed alphabetically | Listed by function

• Manual:Image Administration -- Licensing

• Manual:Configuring file uploads

• Manual:FAQ -- How do I change the logo?

• Manual:Upgrading

• Manual:Upgrading -- Command line

• Manual:Contents

A technical manual for the MediaWiki software. Contains information for developers and system administrators on installing, managing and developing for the MediaWiki software.

• Manual:Footer

Categories

• Category:Skin

• Category:Skin extensions

• Category:User interface

• Category:MediaWiki configuration settings

• Category:Corporate-friendly_solution

• Category:Interwiki variables

Help & Guides

• Help:Contents (MediaWiki Handbook)
• Help:Magic words
• Help:Interwiki linking
• User:Al_Maghi/Industrialization_guide/Archive

• MediaWiki:Licenses
• Commons:Tools/Commonist

Multiple Wikis, One Installation

Q: Is there any extension to handle multiple wikis on the same install?

A: Yes. Here are some relevant links to wade through:

• Running multiple instance of MediaWiki on the Same Server using the Same Source Code?

A step-by-step guide from the author of MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide on how to set up multiple wikis with on MediaWiki instance.

• Manual:Wiki family

This page should lead you through the installation and configuration of a small wiki-family.

Manual:Wiki family/Drupal-style LocalSettings.php

Manual talk:Wiki family/Drupal-style LocalSettings.php

• Create a Wikifarm

Wikifarm and the verb Wikifarming refer to the setup and operation of multiple wikis on a single server. This could be because on a single website you want to run multiple wikis (e.g. http://www.saruman.biz/linuxwiki and http://www.saruman.biz/bsdwiki). Or it could be because you're running multiple websites on a single server (each behind its own IP, or all on the same IP number using virtual hosts), and more than one of these websites needs to have its own wiki.

• WikiHelp: How to Create Another Mediawiki on the Same Server, Using the Same Source Code, Using the Same Database, but with its own Tables

Scenario: You have successfully installed Mediawiki and now want to create another, separate wiki on the same server using new tables but within the same database and using the same source code.

• Category:MediaWiki configuration

Category for documentation about MediaWiki configuration, for wiki owners. See also: Category:Configure

• Category:Installation

This category contains pages that are part of the MediaWiki installation guide.

• Manual:CommonSettings.php

CommonSettings.php can be used instead of LocalSettings.php on wiki farms. Wikipedia uses a version of CommonSettings.php.

• Manual:InitialiseSettings.php

InitialiseSettings.php is a file used by some wiki farms, including Wikimedia's. It is not required; LocalSettings.php can be used instead.

Relevant Extensions

• Extension:WikiFarm

The WikiFarm extension is a tool for wiki-farm administrator to automate multi-wiki setup.

• Extension:CentralAuth

CentralAuth extension allows global/shared accounts between projects. This extension adds six new special pages — Special:AutoLogin (unlisted special page), Special:CentralAuth, Special:GlobalGroupMembership, Special:GlobalGroupPermissions, Special:GlobalUsers and Special:MergeAccount.

NOTE: CentralAuth was designed specifically for Wikimedia projects which already had millions of accounts that needed to be merged into a global table. If you are starting a new wiki farm from scratch and have no need to merge existing accounts into a global table, it is much easier to set up global accounts using $wgSharedDB. ([1], [2]) However, this provides no solution to the single-sign-on feature (sign-in on one wiki, like wikipedia.org, automatically makes the user signed-in to e.g. a shared repository under a different, shared domain, like commons.wikimedia.org).

Using files from a database that you can access : ForeignDBRepo

• Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos

(Shared uploads.)

Using files from a database that you can access : ForeignDBRepo

The ForeignDBRepo class is very useful for creating wiki families. In a wiki family, each wiki will have its own database or table prefix. Using this class, you can make a family member aware of the tables of another family member. Access through ForeignDBRepo is faster than through ForeignAPIRepo. This code should be deployed to localsettings.php.

Testing ForeignDBRepo to PortlandWiki on 23:05, 17 September 2011 (PDT)

• InstantCommons is working:

• But unable to get ForeignDBRepo to pull images from PortlandWiki.

Testing ForeignAPIRepo (like used with InstantCommons) to PortlandWiki on 20:22, 18 September 2011 (PDT)

File:WikiLeaks Mobile Information Collection Unit.jpg

WikiLeaks Mobile Information Collection Unit

It works!!!

• For the workaround, SEE:

RESOLVED $wgUseSharedUploads causes trouble (Full snippet.)

RESOLVED $wgUseSharedUploads causes trouble (The most relevant snippet of the thread.)

Multi-Synchronous Collaborative Semantic Wikis

• Multi-Synchronous Collaborative Semantic Wikis

In this paper, we present a new model of semantic wiki called Multi-Synchronous Semantic Wiki (MS2W). This model extends semantic wikis with multi-synchronous support that allows to create a P2P network of semantic wikis. Semantic wiki pages can be replicated on several semantic servers.

MediaWiki in the Enterprise

• Category:Corporate-friendly solution

Contains category pages for "Corporate-friendly solution."

• MediaWiki is a corporate solution/Enterprise use of MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a simple, powerful and free solution to produce a wiki web site in an enterprise.

• Sites using MediaWiki/corporate

A list of companies using MediaWiki, typically in an Intranet environment.

• wiki4enterprise - Kategorie:Organisationen

Diese Kategorie enthält Unternehmen und Organisationen, die sich für den Einsatz von MediaWiki in Organisationen stark machen.

Multihomed, Multidomain Collaboration

• The Swiss Experiment Platform (Swiss Experiment or SwissEx)
• SwissExperiment - Metadata

FROM SITE: A platform to enable real-time environmental experiments through wireless sensor networks and a common, modern, generic cyber-infrastructure. This infrastructure will be used to enable interdisciplinary environmental research, allowing scientists to work efficiently and collaboratively to find the key mechanisms in the triggering of natural hazards and to efficiently distribute the information to increase public awareness.

DAVE'S NOTES: This site is a good model for explaining how multiple and dispersed nodes (people / domains / data points) can collaborate effectively.

EXAMPLE: Wannengrat Deployment/Fieldsite

List of Semantic Wiki Engines

• Category:Semantic wiki engine (SemanticWeb.org)

• Sematic MediaWiki (SMW)

• Sematic MediaWiki Plus (SMW⁺)

• OntoWiki

• SweetWiki

• IkeWiki

• SWooki

Semantic MediaWiki | SMW+

• Category:Semantic Bundle extensions

• Help:Semantic templates

• Extension:Halo Extension

Semantic Toolbar, allowing to quickly inspect, create and alter the semantic annotations of a wiki article

Advanced Annotation Mode, for annotating contents semantically in a WYSIWYG-like manner without having to cope with the wiki source text

Auto-completion, suggesting entities or data existing in the wiki while typing (e.g. when annotating in the wiki-text or filling in input fields)

Graphical query interface, empowering users to easily compose queries and preview query results with different output formats

Ontology browser, enabling intuitive browsing and changing of the wiki's ontology and lookup of instance and property information

• Extension:Semantic Forms

• Help:Recurring events

A recurring event is any event that occurs more than once, according to a pre-defined rule: examples are weekly meetings, anniversaries and birthdays.

• Category:Semantic MediaWiki extensions

• Strategies for Building Semantic Web Applications - (Comprehensive list of information resources.)

• Semantic Wiki: Trending topics

• SMW+

• http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Semantic_MediaWiki_Plus

• Semantic_MediaWiki

• http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

• SMW quick reference

• Semantic MediaWiki Plus

The semantic technologies of SMW+ complement the dynamic and community-driven characteristics of wikis, making it the perfect tool for collaborative, wiki-based project management.

Semantic Wiki Trending Topics

SMW / SMW+ Extensions

• Data Import extension: Use external data in your Wiki

• http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Data_Import_Extension

• Extension:SparqlExtension

• Semantic Bundle

(Redundancy Alert: Semantic MediaWiki comes as part of this bundle.)

• SMW+ (Semantic Enterprise Wiki)

• Help:Extensions

• Help:SMW extensions

Semantic Wiki: Phpwiki, Freebase, Semantic Mediawiki, Tikiwiki, Bowiki, Smw+, Ontowiki, Wagn

reading material

• Semantic MediaWiki
• Semantic MediaWiki (Semantic Knowledge Management)
• Semantic MediaWiki & Semantic Forms
• Case study of a simple but highly effective use of Semantic MediaWiki on the CC Wiki
• FOAF and the Semantic Web
• Semantic Wiki: Phpwiki, Freebase, Semantic Mediawiki, Tikiwiki, Bowiki, Smw+, Ontowiki, Wagn
• A Semantic Wiki for Quality Management in Software Development Projects
• Semantic wiki

discussion lists

• Semediawiki-user (Semantic MediaWiki user mailing list.)

Deployment Framework

• Semantic MediaWiki Plus - Deployment Framework

The Deployment Framework is a tool that allows the convenient management of MW extensions and content bundles of a wiki installation. Also, it is contained in SMW+ Community and Professional Edition for automating the process of upgrading and extending SMW+.

Installing SMW+ Deployment Framework

• Help:Deployment Framework - user manual article for Deployment Framework 1.3.1

Installation Note: We recommended that you install the Deployment Framework on a plain MW installation; the Deployment Framework may later on not update those extensions that were installed manually or those that have been customized.

Data Import / Export / Exchange

• Category:Database extensions

• Extension:WikiDB

WikiDB

WikiDB/Tutorial

• Extension:Data Import Extension

An extension to Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) and the Halo Extension.

Developed as a part of Project Halo to embrace data provided by external applications and to re-use the data in a wiki.

The Data Import Extension enables users to integrate external data into the Wiki in two different ways.

1. First the Web Service component allows to retrieve data from external RESTful and basic SOAP web services from within the Wiki.
2. Second the Term Import Framework component allows to import data into the Wiki as new articles.

At the moment it supports web services, CSV files and POP3 (emails) as sources for import.

All features come with easy to use graphical user interfaces.

Features

1. Using data and features from web services - features to attach to an external RESTful or basic SOAP web service, to specify the update and cache cleanup policies and to generate semantic annotations from read or imported data
2. Importing new Wiki articles - Companies that want to introduce a semantic wiki as new knowledge managements system often have their own vocabulary of specific terms that they want to be reflected in the Wiki. The Term Import component allows importing such existing terms into the wiki.

• Extension:IncludeArticle

Example

To get the first 200 letters from a random article in the MAIN NAMESPACE

<IncArticle>{{{content}}}</IncArticle>

To get the first 300 letters from a random article:

<IncArticle count="300">{{{content}}}</IncArticle>

To define your own format for the generated article, you can use your own style.

<IncArticle count="300">
== {{{titleblank}}} ==
{{{content}}}
</IncArticle>

• Extension:StarterWiki

StarterWiki provides a set of maintenance scripts and functions to allow for creation of wiki databases based off a starter wiki.

DynamicPageList (DPL)

• Extension:DynamicPageList

DynamicPageList (DPL) is a MediaWiki extension which allows wiki users to create a list of pages that are listed in a set of categories. "DPL is a Swiss Army knife for your wiki." See Help:DPL for general information.

• DPL:Manual

Explains fundamental concepts of DPL.

• Extension:NukeDPL

Allows mass deletion of articles using mediawikiwiki:Extension:DynamicPageList.

Tabular Data

• Extension:TableEdit

Dave's Notes: This extension will probably be too buggy to use, but look for something similar.

ALSO CHECK OUT: DataTables (A jQuery library that looks like it can be used as a stand-alone or in conjunction with Extension:TableEdit. Looks very useful!)

Data Visualization

• SwarmExport

SwarmExport allows for export of a wiki's history in a format that can be used by code_swarm to make a visualization of the wiki's timeline.

VISUAL EXAMPLE code_swarm - An experiment in organic software visualization.

• Wiki Category Tag Cloud
• Extension:FlowchartWiki

FlowchartWiki - Wiki-based Process Modelling and Documentation (The external wiki for the FlowchartWiki extension developer.)

• Extension:Storyboard

Storyboard is an extension developed for the Wikimedia Foundations fundraising efforts. It allows users to submit stories and can display these in an ajaxscroll board that can be embedded in wiki articles. The stories can be managed via a story review interface and be viewed and edited individually on a special story page.

Data Extraction

• Category:Data extraction extensions
• Extension:ExplicitDescription
• Extension:LinkedWiki
• Extension:SparqlExtension

This is really cool: Extension:SparqlExtension#Charts

More here: User:Alfredas/Charts

(Compare with Extension:LinkedWiki.)

Interact With External Data

• Extension:WikiSync

This extension allows an AJAX-based synchronization of revisions and files between global wiki site and its local mirror.

• Extension:WikiOpener

1. manage structured data (databases, files, ...)
2. run (on-the-fly) analysis tools

• Mediawiki XML page importing

This is about importing the text of wiki pages using an xml format.

• Batch importing files into MediaWiki

Note: This is about importing binary files like images from the command line.

• Wikimedia sync script

Keep your MediaWiki install automatically synced with the Wikimedia wikis by way of a script.

MediaWiki Widgets

• MediaWiki Widgets Catalog

Hosts a public collection of MediaWiki Widgets.

• MediaWiki Widgets Category:Widget

Pages in category "Widget".

• MediaWiki Widgets

Widgets extension allows adding widgets to wiki by just creating pages in Widget namespace.

Google Widgets

• Widget:Google Form

This widget allows you to add Google Spreadsheet Forms to your wiki page.

• Widget:Google Document

This widget allows you to add Google Documents to your wiki page.

• Widget:Google Spreadsheet

This widget allows you to add Google Spreadsheets to your wiki page.

• Widget:Google Presentation

This widget allows you to add Google Presentations to your wiki page.

Editing

• Category:Page creation extensions

• Category:Edit extensions

• Extension:AddPageService

AddPageService is a web service that enables external programs to add or edit pages on the wiki just as a regular user.

• User:MarkS/Extra edit buttons

"The system used by Wikipedia."

• Extension:VariablesExtension

Dave's Note: Check to see if this extension (Extension:VariablesExtension) is used in Portland's WikiWednesday meetup page on Wikipedia.

• Help:Template

• Help:Embed page

• Help:Advanced templates

Forms

• Extension:Semantic Forms

• Mediawiki Forms

(Mediawiki Forms Example)

• Extension:Simple Forms

• Extension:FormMailer

• Extension:EmailPage

MediaWiki Extensions: Other

• Category:OutputPageBeforeHTML extensions

• Category:BeforePageDisplay extensions

• Category:HTML head extensions

• Extension:Advanced Meta

• Category:Tag extensions

• Extension:CategoryTree

• Extension:InputBox

• Extension:ContactPage

RSS / Feed Extensions

• Category:RSS extensions

• Category:Remote content extensions

• Extension:SimpleFeed

Installed Extensions

• See Special:Version

Fund Raising

• SidebarDonateBox

Domain Ideas

• semanticwikiweb.com

Consulting

• WikiWorks
• Semantic Communities, LLC

Further Reading

• 20 MediaWiki Extensions You Should Be Using