Mediawiki/QuickReference

Edit sidebar, place after domain

/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=edit

Allow anonymous users to view all pages

change the following in LocalSettings.php

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;

backup wiki mysql db

wiki db name, username, & password can be found in the mediawiki config, LocalSettings.php

sudo -s
mysqldump -u <user> -p <db name> --password > wikidatabasebackup.sql
i.e.
mysqldump -u wikiuser -p wikidb --password > /var/www/mediawiki/backup/wikidatabasebackup10_4_12.sql

backup mediawiki file system

this tars everything in the webpage folder

sudo -s
tar zcvhf <tar file> /<wiki local location>
i.e.
tar zcvhf wikidatabackup03_11_14.tgz /var/www/mediawiki/ 

backup XML data

this backs up the content of the wiki, like pages and their revisions

sudo -s
<location of maintenance folder>$ php dumpBackup.php --full > <backupfile.xml>
i.e.
sudo -s
/var/www/mediawiki/maintenance$ php dumpBackup.php --full > XMLbackup03_11_14.xml 

Remove the discussion tab from all pages.

Add the following to the MediaWiki:Common.css page (which is accessible by typing that into the search box on the wiki - i.e. type MediaWiki:Common.css into the search field)

#ca-talk { display:none!important; }

Enable hide/delete history

Add the following to /var/www/mediawiki/Localsettings.php

# Enabling Sysops (admins) to hide revisions and log items from users
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deletelogentry'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deleterevision'] = true;

change upload limit

goto /etc/apache2/sites-available/mediawiki
add the following anywhere inside <Virtual Host>

php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
php_value post_max_size 20M

add new file extension to be allowed for upload

goto /var/www/mediawiki/Localsettings.php
find $wgFileExtensions, add new extension to array surrounded by quotes ('txt')
restart apache2