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Wiki Customizations
Documentation of tweaks and customizations made to ACC Wiki that differ from a default installation of the Mediawiki Software with special emphasis on changes that are either not documented or poorly documented elsewhere and would be difficult to reproduce without significant research or experimentation.
Extensions
- Autoincrement - A variable hook that adds an autoincrementing variable, {{AUTOINCREMENT}}.
- CategoryTree - Displays a collapsable tree for navigating categories/subcategories/articles. See How To Use Category Trees.
- Cite - Basic foot note functionality. See How To Make Footnotes.
- ParserFunctions - A set of logical and arithmetic expressions.
- ReplaceText - Site wide text find and replace, in many cases changes cannot be undone so great care must be exercised. Restricted to Bot accounts. Contact a bot owner to request a job run. The extension has been modified to force the bot flag be respected, details are here.
- Variables - Limited use of variables within templates.
- YouTube extension - Allows embedded YouTube videos (along with other formats). Usage details can be found here.
Message and Special Pages
For a complete list (and defaults for modified pages) see Special:AllMessages. The list is very long, click the "Show only modified" button to filter the messages and display only those that have been modified and differ from the defaults.
- Asheron's Call Community Wiki:Copyrights
- MediaWiki:Edittools -
- MediaWiki:Common.css -
- MediaWiki:Common.js - Calculate PXP by level, percent.
- MediaWiki:Refresh -
- MediaWiki:Sidebar -
- MediaWiki:Sitenotice -
- MediaWiki:Talkpagetext -
- MediaWiki:Uploadtext - Text displayed on Upload File page.
- MediaWiki:Welcomecreation - Special message page displayed on new account creation.
- Special:AllMessages - Interface to many system messages that can be modified by clicking the redlink on left and customizing.
Backups
Personal backups of specific pages or groups of pages can be made by going to Special:Export, in the large text box you can enter an article/page title on each line. In general it is best to leave the "Include only the current revision" box checked, especially if you are exporting more than one page. Every single edit that is made saves a complete version of the page, so a page with many edits can be very large to export. And since the page would be reverted to the last backup, most of the history would already be preserved. Importing a page requires Sysop status, so you may need provide the copy to an admin and have them upload it for you should the need arise.
Page dumps are made about once a week and are downloadable at the bottom of Special:Statistics.
Image Licenses
When a user uploads an image a number of licensing options are available via a dropdown box. The options available are controlled via the system message page MediaWiki:Licenses.
The text inserted for each option is a license specific template, these can be found in Category:Image Copyright Tags.
Appearance
Site Logo
The image that is displayed in the upper left and links to the homepage can be set as an url for $wgLogo in the LocalSettings.php file. For example:
$wgLogo = "http://asheron.info/~asheron/images/Site_Logo_Padula.png";
You can also replace the file wiki.png with the image you wish to use (same name) located in /skins/common/images. However this file is replaced each time the mediawiki software is updated and will need to be replaced with the desired file again each time.
Sidebar
The sidebar (links on the left) can be edited at Mediawiki:Sidebar for the monobook skin and at MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar for the monaco (default) skin. Some options, like the links in the toolbox, are context sensitive and will change depending on the nature of each particular page.