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Mediawiki is a wiki that is used e.g. by LQ Wiki and Wikipedia.

Contents 1 Config 1.1 Disabling anonymous editing 1.2 Disabling self-registration 1.3 Allowing pictures 1.4 Allow all html tags 1.5 Changing the sidebar 1.6 beautify URL 2 Setup

Config

The default config is to allow anonymous editing of any page and self registration.

Disabling anonymous editing

Edit LocalSettings.php and make sure it contains the lines

$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['edit']            = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createpage']      = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createtalk']      = false;

Disabling self-registration

If you want to stop people self-registering the add another line to the LocalSettings.php

$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createaccount']   = false;

below the line

require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" );

Allowing pictures

If you are the only editor of a wiki (otherwise security flaws!) and want to allow pictures from all over the web, add the following line to the LocalSettings.php

$wgAllowExternalImages = true;

below the line

require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" );

Allow all html tags

If you are the only editor of a wiki (otherwise security flaws!) and want to allow any html code in your wiki, read and follow http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgRawHtml

Changing the sidebar

This is done on the application level; just edit Mediawiki:Sidebar.

beautify URL

By default, mediawiki's main page is in http://whatever/index.php/Main_Page. To get rid of "index.php", read and follow http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

Setup

• Set up mediawiki with SUSE