Wiki maintenance

MediaWiki version and configuration

As of 14 February 2008, the OpenOffice.org Wiki is running on:

• MediaWiki 1.11
• MySQL 5.0.33
• pHp 5.0.4

You can access the MediaWiki API via: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/api.php

Wiki Upgrade and Maintenance

• Basic steps taken to upgrade the Wiki
• apache2 configuration
• php.ini configuration
• index.html and favicon.ico
• How to set up the ShortURL functionality
• Stylesheet modifications to add in "prettytable" and "wikitable" classes
  • Other stylesheet modifications are done in MediaWiki:Common.css
• Wiki footer modifications
• LocalSettings.php modifications
• Modifications to use Imagemagick for thumbnails
• Extensions
• The OpenOffice.org Wiki Skin

WikiBots

There are a few options for running WikiBots on the OpenOffice.org Wiki.

• JavaFramework WikiBot
• PyWikipedia Bot
  • PyWikpediaBot is used to do most of the Wiki maintenance including moving, deleting, bulk editing and cleaning up double redirects.

Wiki Sysops

Wiki users with Sysop privileges

Wiki Extension Requests

• Add Flagged Version control: Flagged_Revisions
  • Cannot be implented until either php is recompiled on Solaris 10U6 or we move to another OS on the host machine.
• Add HTTPS login: Extension:HttpsLogin
  • Cannot be implemented on the current server config. Will look at again after updating the server OS in March 2009
• Add Checkpoint: Extension:Checkpoint
  • Added 20 January 2009
• Add OpenID support: Extension:OpenID
• Add page rating support: Extension:JSKitRating
  • Installed for testing on 16 December 2008. Requested by UX team.
  • REMOVED: This extension causes errors in MediaWiki 1.13.3
• Add FCKEditor FCKeditor_(by_FCKeditor_and_Wikia)
  • Installed but disabled until we can set the boolean in the user database to have the editor disabled per user by default. Users will have to turn on the FCKEditor in their preferences if they want to use it. Having the editor default to ON was unacceptable to the long time Wiki users.
  • Cannot implement in current server architecture. Will look at again in March 2009.