Help:Contents
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Create Users
- login as a sysop
- navigate to the page User login
Upload Images
- click the Upload file link in the toolbar on the left
- follow the instructions to upload a file
- to place a file in a page, use this code
[[Image:Lock.png|18px| ]]
General Tips
creating redirects by editing the page from which you wish to redirect from
#REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]]
Layout
- change the sidebar MediaWiki:Sidebar
- edit LocalSettings.php and change the wgDefaultSkin value
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_styles
Restricting Permissions
- only sysops can move, delete and protect pages
Special:Userrights manage who can do what
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_levels
- create a bureaucrat where there isn't one
use wikidb;
INSERT INTO user_groups (ug_user, ug_group) VALUES ('1', 'bureaucrat');
- on HTN users & guests can read
- on HTN sysops can move, & delete in the wiki
- these are all defaults for mediawiki
- on HTN users can write the wiki
- on HTN sysops can create users
Upgrading
- Special:Version
- fix password inconsitencies
SET PASSWORD FOR 'wikiuser'@'localhost'= OLD_PASSWORD('newpassword');
- symlink /wiki to the new distribution
- symlink images/ and LocalSettings.php into wiki
- check prfx_interwiki
use prfx_interwiki; INSERT INTO `prfx_interwiki ` ( `iw_prefix` , `iw_url` , `iw_local` , `iw_trans` )
VALUES (
'wikipedia', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', '1', '0'
);
Testing
Logo
Gothic, steampunk, gaiman, clock, h~ tower [yale], harry s and nancy h~, 1st east 75th Edward and Mary Stillman H~ House, rialto brdg
