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Software

Version information

--Mark Hill (talk) 14:54, 12 June 2014 (EST)

• MediaWiki 1.20.7
• PHP 5.3.28 (cgi-fcgi)
• MySQL 5.1.67-community

June 2014 Versions Available

• MediaWiki 1.23.0 is now available. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
• PHP 5.5 (5.5.13) http://windows.php.net/download/
• MySQL Community Server (GPL) (Current Generally Available Release: 5.6.19) http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

Wiki Backup Information

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki

Collapsible Table Template

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--Mark Hill 15:25, 7 June 2011 (EST) Had to update this content when usability option was implemented.

--Mark Hill 18:24, 13 June 2012 (EST) Still cannot fix the Quiz extension. Seems to run on all my other wikis.

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Large File Transfers

• https://www.yousendit.com - website allows large files to be easily transferred.

Mobile Display

Simple mobile skin auto change

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Simple_mobile_skin_auto_change

Java

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-1637588.html

Wiki Mobile Viewers

• Wikipanion (iTunes link) - has + version allows own wiki site to be added. Have submitted (Oct 2012) embryo site to be added.
• Wikipedia (iTunes link) - feedback suggests slow.
• Taptu's Wapedia (iTunes link) - has popup adds.
• Wikiamo (iTunes link) -feedback suggests crashes.
• Comparison of the above viewers
  • Wikipedia mobile site - http://en.m.wikipedia.org

Custom Namespaces

Custom namespaces are created via manipulation of the $wgExtraNamespace global variable. Manipulation of this variable must be completed before completion of MediaWiki initialization; for instance it cannot be manipulated in a extension post initialization hook. As an example of simple custom namespace creation, one can add an appropriate line to LocalSettings.php,

$wgExtraNamespaces[510] = "Student";

$wgExtraNamespaces[511] = "Student_talk";

$wgExtraNamespaces[512] = "MedStudent";

$wgExtraNamespaces[513] = "MedStudent_talk";

$wgExtraNamespaces[514] = "SciStudent";

$wgExtraNamespaces[515] = "SciStudent_talk";

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_namespace_registration