A couple of ideas:
- on a page by page basis you can see what version of a resource was
available at any given time through the history function; or
- take snapshots of the database at key times & have these available to be
restored into an empty wiki as and when required. You would also need to
backup the images directory at the same time.
cd \MySQL\bin
mysqldump -u wikiusername -pwikiuserpassword wikidb > \backup\wikidb.sql
xcopy \mediawiki\images\*.* \backup\images /s /e
Al.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Davies [mailto:ucgajpd@ucl.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 May 2005 5:47 a.m.
To: mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] archiving wiki
We are using the wiki for teaching and discussion. Now it transpires that we
must provide some kind of record of what resources were available to the
students at a given point.
it's obviously not a question of a normal dump of HTML: I don't think anyone
minds *that* much what form it takes but it will need to be accessible to
non-techy people.
any suggestions on these 'snapshots' gratefully received. Thanks.
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Why not just limit who can create accounts - in localsettings.php
# Limit creation of new user accounts to staff with admin access
$wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "sysop" => 1, "developer" => 1);
Then only the people who you create accounts for will be able to edit the
wiki.
Al.
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From: rob goodwin [mailto:robin@novadiem.com]
Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2001 4:34 a.m.
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] locking down mediawiki ?
Brion Vibber wrote:
> rob goodwin wrote:
>
>> i can't seem to find this in the docs.
>>
>> how do i make it so the average user can't change the wiki.
>> only admin and people i choose.
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#User_administration
>
> Please read includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings.
>
It seems to indicate that I can make it so that only logged in persons can
edit.
It doesn't seem to say if I can again limit this to Sysops only.
Am I missing it?
rob
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I'm trying to add math formatting to a new wiki running on a sparc
system under Solaris10.
I've installed ocaml and imageMagick, ncurses and teTeX. The first 2 I
built and installed and put symbolic links to the binaries in
/usr/local/bin. The second 2 came as packages from www.sunfreeware.com
and so I used pkgadd to install. Which all seemed to work fine.
The installation instructions for teTeX talk about adding the teTeX
binaries to my path. How do I add them to the wiki's path? Alternatively
what would I link to for a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin - the binary
in teTeX is called sparc-sun-solaris-sol2.9 which doesn't seem to be
very helpful
There's obviously something else I need to do as a sample equation in my
wiki is not being formatted.
regards
--Emma
Could somebody please give me some details of how to do a direct SQL
query? I mean, can I use Media Wiki as a frontend for my MySQL databases?
That would be great! My wiki is on my intranet and for me a read only
access is ok. If not, how could it be managed?
thanks,
Pablo Chamorro C.
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To allow SQL queries through the wiki's Special:Asksql page, you can
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MediaZilla (http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/) is a nice version of Bugzilla spliced into wikipedia
format. Where can I find out how this was implemented. I currently have a MediaWiki 1.4.4 system
used by an engineering group that is starting to use Bugzilla 2.18. I'd love to integrate the two
products. I've also seen phpBB integrated into a mediawiki. I'm also using that.
-Mike Kelley
We are using the wiki for teaching and discussion. Now it transpires
that we must provide some kind of record of what resources were
available to the students at a given point.
it's obviously not a question of a normal dump of HTML: I don't think
anyone minds *that* much what form it takes but it will need to be
accessible to non-techy people.
any suggestions on these 'snapshots' gratefully received. Thanks.
You might want to start with looking up the documentation for the AuthPlugin module of MediaWiki. I used it to integrate MediaWiki with vBulletin. It wasn't too hard except I encountered some unexpected behavior in MediaWiki's SpecialUserlogin.php and had to make a one-line hack to get the integration working. AuthPlugin is convenient, but I hope to see more features in future versions.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kelley <michael.kelley(a)argonst.com>
Sent: May 16, 2005 11:42 PM
To: MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaZilla template implementation
MediaZilla (http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/) is a nice version of Bugzilla spliced into wikipedia
format. Where can I find out how this was implemented. I currently have a MediaWiki 1.4.4 system
used by an engineering group that is starting to use Bugzilla 2.18. I'd love to integrate the two
products. I've also seen phpBB integrated into a mediawiki. I'm also using that.
-Mike Kelley
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Hi, I have searched this list, the weta.wikipedia.org and Googled for info
on creating a new Special page without any luck. Can anyone point me to some
resources?
What I am trying to do is create a special page that is similar to Userlogin
except that it would be an Userinvite, allowing existing users to invite new
ones (forms for first name, last name, and email address).
I know I have to add my new page to the array in SpecialPages.php, but it
says to use SpecialPage::addPage() and not to edit the array at run-time.
I'm not sure how to go about this since I am a novice at PHP and command
line things in general, I'd feel more comfortable just modding the
SpecialPage.php file itself. How could I do that without damaging
anything? Is there a better way to go about this?
Thanks,
Ryan
Hello,
I have large (eg, greater then 10MB, sometimes hundreds of MB) files that I
wish to put under MediaWiki's "control" in the /images directory and have
them accessible via [[Media:]] and [[Image:]] links.
However, rather then using the /wiki/Special:Upload mechanism, I'd much
rather upload using better upload mechanisms then just my web browser (like
sftp) because these other mechanisms have much better file-control (eg,
pause and resume), upload-status, and time-remaining-display
capabilities. The pure-web-upload stuff has little if any display/control
for these things, and it's almost impossible to tell if the upload is working.
To this end, I'd like to be able to sftp upload to a local directory on my
web server (which I can do), and then point MediaWiki at a "local" file on
my (web) server and quickly import the file into "MediaWiki" control that way.
Is this possible? How can I do this from a MediaWiki web page, or must I
go through some cmdline (on the server) interface (which is fine for now)?
Thanks for any help,
-Matt