Difference between revisions of "MediaWiki Modifications"

Revision as of 08:22, 17 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.

#Mediawiki PayPal Extension
require_once('extensions/ipbwiki/IpbWiki_PayPal.php');

#Enable the external ImageMagick software 
#Default MediaWiki thumbnail generation is of very low quality.
$wgUseImageMagick = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

#Remove the IP number from the user bar.
$wgShowIPinHeader = false;

#Remove the ability to create new accounts and removes the ability to edit without being logged on.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

#Remove the edit links.
$wgDefaultUserOptions ['editsection'] = 0;

#Enable file uploads and points to the correct directory.
$wgEnableUploads = true;
$wgUploadDirectory = "{$IP}/files";
$wgUploadPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/files";

#Point to the new logo.
$wgLogo = "{$wgScriptPath}/logo.png";

#Enable Tex.
$wgUseTeX           = true;
$wgMathPath         = "{$wgScriptPath}/files/math";
$wgMathDirectory    = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math";
$wgTmpDirectory     = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp";

MonoBook.php

#Remove the Log in / Create new account link.
Foreach($this->data['personal_urls'] as $key => $item)  if($this->data['loggedin']==1) {

#Remove the tabs(article, edit...) for users that are not logged in.
foreach($this->data['content_actions'] as $key => $tab) if($this->data['loggedin']==1) {

#Remove 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',
  );
}

#Remove 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

Add table class that does not look ugly

table.wikitable {
  margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
  background: #f9f9f9;
  border: 1px #aaa solid;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

table.wikitable th, table.wikitable td {
  border: 1px #aaa solid;
  padding: 0.2em;
}

table.wikitable th {
  background: #f2f2f2;
  text-align: center;
}

table.wikitable caption {
  margin-left: inherit;
  margin-right: inherit;
  font-weight: bold;
}

Remove 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

MediaWiki gives this error with ImageMagick older than 6.x:

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

This is because it uses the -thumbnail option that does not exist in earlier versions of ImageMagick, changing it to -resize fixes the problem. The difference is that -thumbnail also strips metadata from the file and will in some cases generate smaller thumbnails.

$cmd  =  wfEscapeShellArg($wgImageMagickConvertCommand) .
" {$quality} -background white -size {$width} ".
wfEscapeShellArg($this->imagePath) .
// Coalesce is needed to scale animated GIFs properly (bug 1017).
' -coalesce ' .
// For the -resize option a "!" is needed to force exact size,
// or ImageMagick may decide your ratio is wrong and slice off
// a pixel.
" -resize " . wfEscapeShellArg( "{$width}x{$height}!" ) .
" -depth 8 " .
wfEscapeShellArg($thumbPath) . " 2>&1";