Help:Setup
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This page contains my key setup and administration links for the mediawiki software and is not intended for the general public. However, if you are setting up your own mediawiki site, feel free to browse my notes below.
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Key Maintenance Pages
- MediaWiki:Sidebar for editing the navigation sidebar
- Special:Allmessages allows editing of the messages on noneditable pages such as the copyright notice on the "Edit" pages.
- Special:Userrights edit user security level (group)
Extensions and hacks I'm using
- ConfirmEdit Captcha Extension used to protect from automated spam
- Talkright Extension used to allow separate edit authority for talk pages.
- Sites on "clean urls" for mediawiki
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url changing url configuration
- http://wiki.welldesignedurls.org/Clean_Urls_for_MediaWiki Welldesignedurls.org Clean URLs for Mediawiki Page
- http://help.textdrive.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=140
- http://forum.siteground.com/showthread.php?t=2043 thread from Siteground.com on short urls for mediawiki
- http://www.doriat.com Mod_Rewrite Tutorial Board
- http://www.doriat.com/mod_rewrite620.html Mediawiki thread at Mod_Rewrite Tutorial Board
External Documentation Sites
- User's Guide
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ MediaWiki Help FAQ
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access Preventing access
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights User rights
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Upgrading_MediaWiki Upgrading
- http://www.mwusers.com/ MediaWiki Users Forum
- http://wiki.evernex.com/index.php?title=Blocking_Spam_in_Mediawiki Blocking Spam in Mediawiki
- http://www.thinklemon.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Google_Sitemaps Google sitemap generator for mediawiki
Other Stuff
- Tutorialized.com Backing up MySQL with Cron
- Automated Cron backup through email This is the code I am using to automatically (through a Cron Job)backup my mysql database and send it to me via email.
