Wiki Administration Notes

From SnOwy - Ed's Wiki Notebook

These are some notes I've made about the administration of this wiki.

This is something that's really for my own reference in case I need to retouch the same settings again later on.

Contents 1 Left Column Navigation Bar 2 Special:AllPages 3 Configuration Notes 4 Changing the Main Page

Left Column Navigation Bar

To customize the left-hand column navigation bar, edit the page MediaWiki:Sidebar.

Special:AllPages

A link to Special:AllPages is an automatically generated page with a link to all the pages in the wiki.

Configuration Notes

Changes made to LocalSettings.php:

#Top left logo.
$wgLogo = "http://tin.blogdns.com/Library/TinWikiLogo.gif";

#favicon
$wgFavicon = "http://eddiema.ca/edfavicon.png";

#Prevents guests from editing or creating pages.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

#Prevents guests from editing or creating accounts.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

These options are documented in the mediawiki wiki [1].

Changing the Main Page

• create and edit the page 'MediaWiki:Mainpage'.
• the contents of this page specifies what the main page for the wiki should be.
• example: MediaWiki:Mainpage