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[[Image:Thomas Jefferson rev.jpg|thumb|right|He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.]] | [[Image:Thomas Jefferson rev.jpg|thumb|right|He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.]] | ||
I'm Greg Rundlett [http://iic.harvard.edu/people] [http://freephile. | I'm Greg Rundlett [http://iic.harvard.edu/people] [http://freephile.org] [http://rundlett.com], a free software advocate who lives in Newburyport, MA with my wife and two sons. | ||
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The growth curve of MediaWiki is exponential. The quality of the software is excellent. | The growth curve of MediaWiki is exponential. The quality of the software is excellent. | ||
Does your wiki have [http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page conferences]? | Does your wiki have [http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page conferences]? | ||
[[]] | [[Image:Logo Wikimania Buenos Aires.jpg|thumb|300px|WikiMania]] | ||
WikiPedia now has over ten million articles across 250 languages! | WikiPedia now has over ten million articles across 250 languages! | ||
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| text = You can remove the database configuration lines into it's own file and then include that file from LocalSettings so that you now can commit LocalSettings to your version control repository without revealing the db credentials.}} | | text = You can remove the database configuration lines into it's own file and then include that file from LocalSettings so that you now can commit LocalSettings to your version control repository without revealing the db credentials.}} | ||
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## Database settings | ## Database settings | ||
## moved to a separate file so that we can track changes to the general config in version control, without checking in our db credentials | ## moved to a separate file so that we can track changes to the general config in version control, without checking in our db credentials | ||
require_once( "$IP/DatabaseSettings.php" ); | require_once( "$IP/DatabaseSettings.php" ); | ||
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One good practice is to have some sort of text version or other backup of your wiki in case the machine, webserver, or database that the system depends on is down. As an administrator, you can use the dumpBackup.php script found in the <code>maintenance</code> directory of you MediaWiki installation. Something like the following in a system [[cron]] would be good: | One good practice is to have some sort of text version or other backup of your wiki in case the machine, webserver, or database that the system depends on is down. As an administrator, you can use the dumpBackup.php script found in the <code>maintenance</code> directory of you MediaWiki installation. Something like the following in a system [[cron]] would be good: | ||
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/usr/bin/php /var/www/phase3/maintenance/dumpBackup.php --current --output=file:/var/backups/example.com/`date +%F`-wiki.text.export.txt | /usr/bin/php /var/www/phase3/maintenance/dumpBackup.php --current --output=file:/var/backups/example.com/`date +%F`-wiki.text.export.txt | ||
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As a user, one tool that can come in handy is [[Special:Wiki2XML]] <ref>http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/README, see also [[Format_conversion]]</ref> | As a user, one tool that can come in handy is [[Special:Wiki2XML]] <ref>http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/README, see also [[Format_conversion]]</ref> | ||
Another useful tool to the Administrator is the bulk image importer. To import all the screenshots that I used at the start of this presentation, I did the following: | Another useful tool to the Administrator is the bulk image importer. To import all the screenshots that I used at the start of this presentation, I did the following: | ||
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php importImages.php --user=Freephile --comment='Set of screenshots of sites using MediaWiki ' ~/Desktop/mediawiki/snaps/ | php importImages.php --user=Freephile --comment='Set of screenshots of sites using MediaWiki ' ~/Desktop/mediawiki/snaps/ | ||
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Note how using a Category tag in the comment will automatically place the images in the Category specified. | Note how using a Category tag in the comment will automatically place the images in the Category specified. | ||