MediaWiki Configuration

Page Review (done)

All Main_ prefixed pages and links have been reviewed and corrected.

Managing Rights (done)

• sysop via db
  

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Setting_user_rights_in_MediaWiki#Granting_rights_to_users

• User Rights

It seems neccessary to require users to login to edit.
This avoids defacement and makes authors feel more responsible for the content.

Special Pages to take care of:

• Project:Administrators

Help Content (done)

Help:Contents with links to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide

Help:Editing with links to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents#For_editors

Copyrights (done)

Project:Copyrights

Navigation Box (done)

See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#In_version_1.5
MediaWiki:Sidebar

InterWiki Links

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Guide_for_system_administrators_for_setting_up_interwiki_linking#add_your_own_custom

User:Haui configured issue InterWiki links for TWiki. A test page is at [Sandbox_BernhardHaumacherSandbox]. That would be handy here too.

Custom Namespaces

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace#Custom_namespaces http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Custom_namespaces

Cleanup Test Installations

mediawiki2, mediawiki, backups of httpd.conf, ... can be purged.

We might want to keep one playground though.

CodeSyntaxHighlight MediaWiki Extension (done)

OBSOLETE - this has been replaced with a new version of the Syntax Highlighter, and it has new MediaWiki syntax. See Extensions

Code Syntax highlighting using GeShi http://qbnz.com/highlighter/ Has been added as per http://mercury.it.swin.edu.au/swinbrain/index.php/CodeSyntaxHighlight_MediaWiki_Extension

Haven't updated help page yet.

The default color codes for Geishi could be improved.

I have changed the colors for oobas, but am not sure what colors to assign for C. I haven't managed to mimick the BASIC IDE as I don't understand why keywords like "for" are blue but "msgbox" is green.

For those that have access to the server the files are in: ooodata/www/mwiki/extensions/CodeSyntaxHighlight/geshi and look like (initial comments removed):

$language_data = array (
	'LANG_NAME' => 'C',
	'COMMENT_SINGLE' => array(1 => '//', 2 => '#'),
	'COMMENT_MULTI' => array('/*' => '*/'),
	'CASE_KEYWORDS' => GESHI_CAPS_NO_CHANGE,
	'QUOTEMARKS' => array("'", '"'),
	'ESCAPE_CHAR' => '\\',
	'KEYWORDS' => array(
		1 => array(
			'if', 'return', 'while', 'case', 'continue', 'default',
			'do', 'else', 'for', 'switch', 'goto'
			),
		2 => array(
			'null', 'false', 'break', 'true', 'function', 'enum', 'extern', 'inline'
			),
		3 => array(
			'printf', 'cout'
			),
		4 => array(
			'auto', 'char', 'const', 'double',  'float', 'int', 'long',
			'register', 'short', 'signed', 'sizeof', 'static', 'string', 'struct',
			'typedef', 'union', 'unsigned', 'void', 'volatile', 'wchar_t'
			),
		),
	'SYMBOLS' => array(
		'(', ')', '{', '}', '[', ']', '=', '+', '-', '*', '/', '!', '%', '^', '&', ':'
		),
	'CASE_SENSITIVE' => array(
		GESHI_COMMENTS => true,
		1 => false,
		2 => false,
		3 => false,
		4 => false,
		),
	'STYLES' => array(
		'KEYWORDS' => array(
			1 => 'color: #b1b100;',
			2 => 'color: #000000; font-weight: bold;',
			3 => 'color: #000066;',
			4 => 'color: #993333;'
			),
		'COMMENTS' => array(
			1 => 'color: #808080; font-style: italic;',
			2 => 'color: #339933;',
			'MULTI' => 'color: #808080; font-style: italic;'
			),
		'ESCAPE_CHAR' => array(
			0 => 'color: #000099; font-weight: bold;'
			),
		'BRACKETS' => array(
			0 => 'color: #66cc66;'
			),
		'STRINGS' => array(
			0 => 'color: #ff0000;'
			),
		'NUMBERS' => array(
			0 => 'color: #cc66cc;'
			),
		'METHODS' => array(
			1 => 'color: #202020;',
			2 => 'color: #202020;'
			),
		'SYMBOLS' => array(
			0 => 'color: #66cc66;'
			),
		'REGEXPS' => array(
			),
		'SCRIPT' => array(
			)
		),
	'URLS' => array(
		1 => '',
		2 => '',
		3 => 'http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/{FNAME}.html',
		4 => ''
		),
	'OOLANG' => true,
	'OBJECT_SPLITTERS' => array(
		1 => '.',
		2 => '::'
		),
	'REGEXPS' => array(
		),
	'STRICT_MODE_APPLIES' => GESHI_NEVER,
	'SCRIPT_DELIMITERS' => array(
		),
	'HIGHLIGHT_STRICT_BLOCK' => array(
		)
);

I found this link useful for working out color codes: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/colors/article.php/3478961

User:Iannz

Could we add the uno idl language file I wrote ? The file is attached to one of my blog articles.

User:Cedricbosdo

Since we don't seem to have a distinct help page for that: just a list of programming languages with wiki syntax highlighting enabled, obtained with <code>[langlist]</code>.

[langlist]

To use syntax highlighting enclose piece of (C++) code in

<code>[cpp]
... code goes here ...
</code>

Subpages (done)

On Kay's suggestion the subpage mechanism has been enabled in Localsettings.php for the main namespace.

This eases the generation of hierarchical structures where appropriate. Subpages allow to place pages as children into other pages and to address other pages relative (e.g. ../../bla). Details can be found in the mediawiki help

There is also an RFE for listening all the subpages for a particular page: in MediaZilla (bug tracking system for mediawiki).

--stx12 12:48, 11 May 2006 (CEST)

New User Nofification

Admins are notified about creation of new user accounts via email. [1]

AntiSPAM Measures

• Edit only if logged in (s. Managing Rights)
• Edit only if email if confirmed ($wgEmailConfirmToEdit)
• SpamRegex prohibits style=display:none ($wgSpamRegex)