Protoball:Setup

MediaWiki

Wikimedia is moving from SVN to Git. Current stable version is 1.19.0; Dreamhost uses 1.16. Many extensions are still svn only.

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git
cd core
git checkout 1.19.6
cd ..
mv core _web_directory_

Beta Site

A copy of the files and database of protoball.org

LocalSettimgs.php, per variable

if(basename(dirname(__FILE__)) == "beta.protoball.org") {
  $wgServer = "beta.protoball.org";
  $wgDBname = _beta_db_;
  $wgDBname = _beta_logo_;
}

Short Urls

LocalSettings.php

$wgScriptPath       = "";
$wgScript           = "$wgScriptPath/index.php";
$wgRedirectScript   = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php";
$wgArticlePath      = "$wgScriptPath/$1";

.htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(skins|stylesheets|images|config|extensions)/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(redirect|texvc|index|load).php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(favicon\.ico|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/.*\.(png|js)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

Extensions

Semantic Bundle

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle

svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_19/phase3
mv phase3
cd phase3/extensions
svn co http://semantic-mediawiki-bundle.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ semantic-bundle
make ext
cp SemanticBundleSettings.sample.php SemanticBundleSettings.php
cp * _web_directory_/extensions/ -R

LocalSettings.php

require_once( "$IP/extensions/semantic-bundle/SemanticBundleSettings.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/semantic-bundle/SemanticBundle.php" );

In page Special:SMWAdmin, click Initialize

php maintenance/update.php

vim SemanticBundleSettings.php
:%s/#include_once/include_once/g

Note: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/protoball/protoballproject.org/extensions/SemanticImageInput/SemanticImageInput.php on line 58

temp fix, do not enable Semantic Image Input

Cite

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/Cite.git

ParserFunctions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions.git

Enable Image Uploads

LocalSettings.php (edit)

$wgEnableUploads  = true;

chmod a+w images

Special Pages

MediaWiki:Mainpage

edit what the main page of the wiki site is

MediaWiki:Sidebar

edit the sidebar links