About this wiki

Config

Default install plus:

• Anonymou edit disabled.
• ConfirmAccount added.
• Extension:GraphViz added
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration

More:

$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'pdf', 'txt', 'vsd' );
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array_fill(0, 200, true);

Todo

• read up on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_can_I_create_Interwiki_Links_in_my_Wiki.3F (want to play nice with other wikis, no familiar wheels here.

• install semantic wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki and do some inline queries.

How to Backup

Two parts: files and DB

/root/backupwiki.sh

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/www/www.quadratic.net/secure
NOW=`date +%a.%d.%b.%Y`
tar zcf /data/backup/athena/athena.wiki.file.backup.$NOW.tgz wiki && echo wiki file backup done || echo wiki file backup failed

mysqldump --host=localhost --user=wikiuser --password=eB7IaeOxn7o wikidb2 >  /data/backup/athena/athena.wiki.sql.backup.$NOW.sql  && echo wiki db backup done || echo wiki db backup failed
gzip -f /data/backup/athena/athena.wiki.sql.backup.$NOW.sql

crontab -l

12  23 * * * /root/backupwiki.sh

further reading

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_architecture_document/How_and_why
• http://highscalability.com/wikimedia-architecture