Difference between revisions of "MediaWiki Modifications"

Revision as of 18:55, 1 February 2007

These changes works on MediaWiki 1.9.1 and has not been tested on anything else.

LocalSettings.php

Changes to this file should be added to the end of the file to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Enable the external ImageMagick software because MediaWiki thumbnail generation is of very low quality.

$wgUseImageMagick = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

Removes the IP number from the user bar.

$wgShowIPinHeader = false;

Removes the ability to create new accounts and removes the ability to edit without being logged on.

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

Removes the edit links.

$wgDefaultUserOptions ['editsection'] = 0;

Enables file upload and points to the correct directory.

$wgEnableUploads = true;
$wgUploadDirectory = "{$IP}/files";
$wgUploadPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/files";

Points to the new logo.

$wgLogo = "{$wgScriptPath}/logo.png";

MonoBook.php

Removes the Log in / Create new account link.

foreach($this->data['personal_urls'] as $key => $item)  if($this->data['loggedin']==1) {

Removes the tabs(article, edit...) for users that are not logged in.

foreach($this->data['content_actions'] as $key => $tab) if($this->data['loggedin']==1) {

Removes irrelevant information from the footer, definition of irrelevance changes for users that are logged in.

if($this->data['loggedin']==1) {
  $footerlinks = array(
  'lastmod', 'viewcount', 'numberofwatchingusers', 'tagline',
  );
} else {
  $footerlinks = array(
  'lastmod', 'tagline',
  );
}

Removes the WikiMedia and copyright icons from the footer.

<!-- <div id="f-poweredbyico"><?php $this->html('poweredbyico') ?></div> -->
<!-- <div id="f-copyrightico"><?php $this->html('copyrightico') ?></div> -->

main.css

Removes the background image.

body {
  font: x-small sans-serif;
  background: #f9f9f9 url(headbg.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat;
  background-image: none;
  color: black;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

image.php

Error creating thumbnail: /usr/bin/convert: Unrecognized option (-thumbnail).