MediaWiki

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MediaWiki is free web-based wiki software that uses PHP and MySQL and is distributed under the GNU GPL license. It is currently used by many Wikimedia Foundation projects such as Wikipedia, and is also widely used by other encyclopedia-style wikis.

The first version of this software was used in 2002 to meet the needs of the free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. Since then, many companies have started using it as a content management system for internal knowledge management. Novell in particular uses it to run some of its high-traffic websites. Thousands of websites use MediaWiki. Some educators also have students use MediaWiki for collaborative group projects.

Users can change fine details with more than 700 configuration settings, and add or remove various features with more than 1,800 extensions. More than 600 automated and semi-automated bot programs and other tools are being developed, which help with editing MediaWiki sites.

Category

• MediaWiki:Template or List of Template: list of common templates to insert into pages.
• MediaWiki:Table: how to use tables.
• MediaWiki:PerformanceTuning: how to improve MediaWiki performance.
• MediaWiki:FileUpload: how to configure MediaWiki file uploads.
• MediaWiki:Cite: how to use the MediaWiki Cite Plugin. <- <references /> syntax.
• MediaWiki:DumpHTML
• MediaWiki:CustomEditButtons
• MediaWiki:Update or MediaWiki:Dump: how to update and dump MediaWiki.
• MediaWiki:Install: how to install MediaWiki
• MediaWiki:Plugin - about plugins.
• MediaWiki:Permission - about permissions.
• MediaWiki:Api - MediaWiki API.
• MediaWiki:Developer
• MediaWiki:Extensions
• MediaWiki:Debug
• MediaWiki:SyntaxHighlight
• MediaWiki:WikiEditor
• MediaWiki:UserRights - user rights
• MediaWiki:ParserFunctions - lets you add things like conditionals to templates.
• MediaWiki:FulltextSearchEngines
• MediaWiki:HowToReadonlyBot - notes on how to make a read-only bot.
• Parsoid (Visual Editor)
• MediaWiki MCP Server

Python Libraries

• mwclient
• mwparserfromhell - the most powerful and general-purpose library; recommended when you need to modify wikicode.
• wikitextparser - good for extracting data such as tables.
• mwlib - use when you want to convert wiki pages to PDF, etc.
• pymediawiki - useful for fetching data from the MediaWiki API.
• mwfilter - one I made

Themes

• borkweb/bootstrap-mediawiki

Shortcuts

• Ctrl+Alt+z: Main Page
• Ctrl+Alt+f: Search

How to use

Explanation of how to use MediaWiki.

Tables

• Help:Tables - MediaWiki

Redirect

Redirects are used to send users from one page name to another. They can be useful when a particular page is referred to by multiple names, different punctuation, capitalization, or spellings.

#REDIRECT [[문서이름]]

Change logo

Just modify the following.

$wgLogo = "$wgScriptPath/wiki.jpg";

Ref TAG

References are used as follows.

<ref>...</ref>
<ref name="multiple">...</ref>
<ref name="multiple" />

Template

• Help:Templates - MediaWiki

Wrapping the name of a template or page in curly braces {{ }} lets you transclude all or part of that template or page into another page. It works similarly to the HTML iframe (inner frame) and PHP's include("page path"). To specify the part to transclude, use the MediaWiki-specific tags onlyinclude, includeonly, and noinclude. None of these three tags take attribute values, and all require both an opening and a closing tag.

onlyinclude

Specifies the part to transclude when the template is used. Without this tag, the whole page is included by default. It is the most frequently used of the three tags, and it is best to place it right next to the part to transclude, unless you intentionally want a line break.

includeonly

Specifies the part that appears only when the template is transcluded into another page. It is often used to automatically categorize pages when a list template for a specific field, such as a navigation template, is transcluded.

noinclude

Specifies the part not to include when transcluding. Used for the template's own categories or description. If you used onlyinclude, there is no need to wrap the rest in noinclude.

TOC

__TOC__

Inserts the TOC at that position.

__NOTOC__

Removes the TOC.

__FORCETOC__

Forces the TOC to display even if there are fewer than 4 headings.

Hide the TOC on printed pages

Backup script

Use the script below to back up. You can also use cron, etc. to back up regularly.

#!/bin/bash

MEDIAWIKI_ROOT=/var/www/html
MAINTENANCE_DIR=$MEDIAWIKI_ROOT/maintenance

DATE_FORMAT=`date +%Y%m%d_%H-%M-%S`
DB_XML_NAME=wiki-db-$DATE_FORMAT.xml
FILE_TAR_NAME=wiki-file-$DATE_FORMAT.tar.gz

CLEANUP=true

php $MAINTENANCE_DIR/dumpBackup.php --full --uploads > $DB_XML_NAME
tar czf $DB_XML_NAME.tar.gz $DB_XML_NAME
tar czf $FILE_TAR_NAME $MEDIAWIKI_ROOT

if [[ "$CLEANUP" == true ]]; then
rm $DB_XML_NAME
fi

Raw Backup

mysqldump -h localhost -u wikiuser -p my_wiki > backup.sql
tar czf images.backup.tar.gz /var/www/html/images
cp LocalSettings.backup.php images.tar.gz /var/www/html/LocalSettings.php

How to restore

After restoring the /var/www/html/images folder, change the permissions:

chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/images

Restore the database backup:

mariadb -D my_wiki -u wikiuser -p < /backup.sql
php maintenance/update.php

Namespace Number

Specal

Notes on the list of special pages.

• MediaWiki:Sidebar - special page for editing the Sidebar. ¹
• MediaWiki:Common.css - edit the common CSS used globally.

General information

• Special:SpecialPages
• Special:AllMessages
• Special:Statistics
• Special:Version - check the version, installed plugins, etc.
• Special:MyPage/common.css - edit the common CSS for the logged-in user.

Page listings

• Special:AllPages
• Special:PrefixIndex
• Special:Categories
• Special:ListFiles
• Special:ListRedirects
• Special:ProtectedPages
• Special:ProtectedTitles
• Special:PagesWithProp
• Special:Mostrevisions - list of the most edited pages

See also

• Wiki

Favorite site

• MediaWiki web site
• MediaWiki Help: Formatting
• MediaWiki Extension: SyntaxHighlight GeSHi
• 5 tips to improve your MediaWiki site’s SEO
• Guchani's collection of odds and ends: Using programs/wik
• [Recommended] Default LocalSettings.php settings right after installing MediaWiki – Weft and Warp – IT

How to use

• Help:Formatting/ko
• Help talk:Tables
• Help:Range blocks/ko

Documentation

• Manual:File cache
• Manual:Maintenance scripts
• Manual:How to debug
• Manual:Installation requirements

Troubleshooting

• How to embed

   tag in a list in a wiki
  

Article

• Vue.js has been selected as Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework - Wikimedia selects Vue.js as its next-generation JS framework
  • Also forms a Wikimedia Design System team and prepares a shareable Vue.js UI component library

References