Today, after a long time, I am finally ready to learn about MediaWiki templates. After having put that off for weeks since I’d first heard of them, I found that it only took about five minutes to learn just about everything there is to know about them from the MediaWiki templates documentation. I think there are a few areas of the ProgClub wiki that could do with the use of templates, might go and see to that now.
Found the doco for MediaWiki’s email settings and now my config looks a little like this:
$wgEnableEmail = true; $wgEnableUserEmail = true; # UPO $wgEmergencyContact = "pcwiki@progclub.org"; $wgPasswordSender = "pcwiki@progclub.org"; $wgNoReplyAddress = $wgEmergencyContact; $wgPasswordSenderName = "ProgClub wiki";
Involved in some design discussion on the wikitech mailing list.
I found the svn repository for MediaWiki extensions:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions
There are a lot of extensions in there. Not sure if adding it as an external on my own repository was a good idea or not. Let’s see how that goes.
At a glance I found a few interesting extensions. I bumped into them while searching for a NoTitle extension, which I couldn’t find. There was StalkerLog, which logs user logins/logouts; and WhoIsWatching, which displays who is watching particular pages.
I updated the Pcwiki page with a Notes for implementers section, and posted to the wikitech-l list about my mods to MediaWiki. It’d be pretty exciting if they’re interested in them!