MediaWiki customizations
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MediaWiki customizations are changes to the default install of MediaWiki that the IndieWeb community has made for various reasons to better serve how the community uses the wiki.

extensions

IndieWeb extensions

https://github.com/indieweb/mediawiki-extensions

  • AllowAnchorTags - allows inserting <a> anchor tags into wikitext
  • notitle - adds __NOTITLE__ tag to stop MediaWiki from adding its own page title
  • raw - lets you embed raw HTML into wiki pages using raw
  • RelWebmention - add webmention endpoint to wiki pages
  • LassoAuth - enables web sign-in/IndieAuth via vouch-proxy
  • Calendar - adds <calendar> tag for creation of a single month calendar

dfn

https://github.com/aaronpk/mediawiki-mf2-dfn

Adds a p-summary tag around the first sentence of a page that contains a <dfn> tag

CategoryTree

mf2 parser

The wiki requires a Microformats parser to be able to do a few things. Copy the php-mf2 repository to the extensions folder.

enable extensions

wfLoadExtension('Cite');
wfLoadExtension('ParserFunctions');
wfLoadExtension('Auth_remoteuser');
wfLoadExtension('CategoryTree');

require_once('extensions/php-mf2/Mf2/Parser.php');
require_once('extensions/dfn/dfn.php');

require_once('extensions/IndieWeb/raw.php');
require_once('extensions/IndieWeb/notitle.php');
require_once('extensions/IndieWeb/AllowAnchorTags.php');
require_once('extensions/IndieWeb/RelWebmention.php');
require_once('extensions/IndieWeb/Calendar.php');
require_once('extensions/IndieWeb/LassoAuth.php');

extension config

LassoAuth::$auth = 'https://sso.indieweb.org/';
LassoAuth::$wiki = 'https://indieweb.org/';

$wgPingbackEndpoint = 'https://webmention.io/indiewebcamp/xmlrpc';
$wgWebmentionEndpoint = 'https://webmention.io/indiewebcamp/webmention';

editable customizations

See MediaWiki:Common.css for custom CSS used on this wiki.

configuration

Add these to LocalSettings.php

enable nice urls

The wiki is installed in the wiki folder on the server, but we want the URLs to be indieweb.org/example. 

$wgScriptPath = '/wiki';
$wgScriptExtension  = ".php";
$wgArticlePath = '/$1';
$wgUsePathInfo = true;
$wgCapitalLinks = false;

user permissions

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['autocreateaccount'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['movefile'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['undelete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['browsearchive'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['rollback'] = true;
$wgDefaultUserOptions ['editsection'] = true;
$wgAllowUserSkin = true;
$wgAllowUserCss = true;
$wgAllowUserJs = true;

copyright

$wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = true;
$wgRightsPage = "IndieWebCamp:Copyrights"; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright
$wgRightsUrl = "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/";
$wgRightsText = "a CC0 public domain dedication";
$wgRightsIcon = "https://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png";
$wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = true;

allow more file uploads

$wgFileExtensions[] = 'pdf';
$wgFileExtensions[] = 'txt';
$wgFileExtensions[] = 'svg';
$wgFileExtensions[] = 'ai';

others

$wgEnableUploads = true;
$wgAllowImageTag = true;
$wgNoFollowLinks = false;
$wgAllowExternalImages = true;
$wgCookieExpiration = 180 * 86400;
$wgSecureLogin = true;
$wgCookieSecure = true;

set up https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRCFeeds to the secret lair of Loqi

skin

We use the default Vector skin for the wiki, with some minor customization to add Microformats markup to pages.

In skins/Vector/VectorTemplate.php, make the changes described on https://aaronparecki.com/2018/01/14/3/

front page

MediaWiki refuses to serve the front page from / and insists on redirecting it to /Main_Page instead. It's possible to rename that page to something like /Home, but even that isn't great. We want the front page to be served at just https://indieweb.org/. To do that, there is a separate index.php file at the root of the server, which essentially proxies the MediaWiki page. 

<?php
$opts = array('title' => 'Main_Page');
if(array_key_exists('useskin',$_GET))
  $opts['useskin'] = $_GET['useskin'];
$ch = curl_init('https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?'.http_build_query($opts));
// Pass the HTTP_COOKIE header through for auth
if(array_key_exists('HTTP_COOKIE', $_SERVER)) {
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
		'Cookie: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_COOKIE']
	));
}

header('Link: <https://webmention.io/indiewebcamp/webmention>; rel="webmention"');

// No-cache if the user is logged in
if(isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'])) {
  header('Cache-Control: no-cache');
}

curl_exec($ch);


FAQ

Why are talk pages disabled

XKCD Cartoon 1665 about Wikipedia talk pages Talk pages are disabled as most of the talk happens in discussion chat channels. The best pieces or synopses are usually then summarized and added the wiki subsequently.

Also, having multiple places for discussion often fragments the discussion between what’s natural and what feels official.

Related XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1665

See Also

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