MediaWiki

Install

Version 1.5 was not yet on amd64 feeds but v1.4.x reclaimed php4 so I took mediawiki v1.5 from the i386 feeds as anyway mediawiki is all arch.

• Raise the PHP memory limit: create /var/lib/mediawiki1.5/.htaccess with%%%php_value memory_limit 32M

Preventing access to pages

• cf http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access#Setting_permissions_for_a_Group_on_a_whole_new_Namespace
• and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Custom_namespaces
• But there are security problems: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Preventing_Access#Security_Problem_using_Namespace_to_limit_access

Better solution seems to use this patch:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Page_access_restriction_with_MediaWiki

Or as refered on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hidden_pages this one:

• http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924

Disable anonymous reading

Easy to get:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access#1.5_Upwards

Customisation

Logo

• I created a symlink from /var/lib/mediawiki1.5/local to /etc/mediawiki1.5/localdata
• In LocalSettings.php: $wgLogo = "$wgScriptPath/local/mylogo.png";