Wiki: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 15:59, 19 March 2014

Welcome

This wiki serves many purposes including documentation, useful links, and team contacts. Suggestions have been made that would greatly expand the scope of the wiki. If you'd like to become officially involved or have any questions contact wiki@soylentnews.org. Also, if you are on IRC you can look for FunPika (who leads this team) or mrcoolbp.

Todo

Upload existing externally hosted images onto the wiki.
Use $wgRCFeeds (and an IRC bot that can post UDP feeds) for the recent changes feed in #wiki instead of the Atom feed being posted by Bender.
Update MediaWiki from 1.22.2 to 1.22.4.

Documentation

The wiki is hosted on the service linode
The only username/password I can even think of mentioning is the MySQL one, which should be in the wiki's LocalSettings.php file.

Responsibilities

At the moment we are mainly just dealing with spam, vandalism, etc. that shows up on the wiki.

Competencies

Familiarity with how MediaWiki works (manual is here).

Dependencies

See also Special:Version for automatically generated information about what software the wiki is running.

MediaWiki 1.22.2 (current version is 1.22.4)
Apache 2.x (whatever CentOS is providing I assume)
PHP 5.3.3 (MediaWiki recommends at least 5.3.5 because of CVE-2010-4645, although that is probably patched in CentOS's version)
MySQL 5.1.73
ImageMagick for image thumbnailing
ConfirmEdit MediaWiki extension (version 1.2, probably from the REL1_22 branch)

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 == Todo ==
-* Install [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:Renameuser|Renameuser]] extension so a rename requested by [[User:Stderr dk|Stderr dk]] to "Stderr" can be completed.
+* Upload existing externally hosted images onto the wiki.
-**NCommander has this on his todo list as well ~[[User:Mrcoolbp|mrcoolbp]] ([[User talk:Mrcoolbp|talk]]) 17:31, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
-* Enable uploads on the wiki so we don't have to rely on external links to Imgur, Photobucket, etc.
-** Also enable [[mediawikiwiki:Manual:$wgUseInstantCommons|$wgUseInstantCommons]] so we can use free images hosted on [[commons:Main Page|Wikimedia Commons]] if we want.
-** Once uploads are enabled upload existing externally hosted images onto the wiki.
-* Install [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi|SyntaxHighlight GeSHi]] extension that can syntax highlight any code that gets posted to the wiki in areas such as [[CssWork]].
 * Use [[mediawikiwiki:Manual:$wgRCFeeds|$wgRCFeeds]] (and an IRC bot that can post UDP feeds) for the recent changes feed in #wiki instead of the Atom feed being posted by Bender.
 * Update MediaWiki from 1.22.2 to 1.22.4.