MediaWiki tips

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Contents 1 MediaWiki:SideBar 2 Footer 3 Passwords 4 Site notices 5 Extensions

[edit] MediaWiki:SideBar

By default wikis have a bunch of stuff I decided we didn't want in the left "navigation" bar. Like these:

• Community portal
• Current events
• Help
• Donations

I removed those by hitting the special MediaWiki:Sidebar page and removing those items. You have to have admin priviledges to do that. More info here

--Jhannah 23:34, 29 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Footer

By default wikis have these links in the footer:

• Privacy policy
• About CLAB
• Disclaimers

I removed those by editing skins/MonoBook.php, removing those 3 from this chunk of code:

$footerlinks = array(
  'lastmod', 'viewcount', 'numberofwatchingusers', 'credits', 'copyright',
  'privacy', 'about', 'disclaimer', 'tagline',
);

More info here

--Jhannah 23:41, 29 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Passwords

You have to issue an SQL command to reset a user's password. KLAB example:

 UPDATE mw2_user SET user_password =
 md5(CONCAT('4-',md5('newpassword'))) WHERE user_id=4;

More info here

--Jhannah 08:58, 1 July 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Site notices

Those site-wide announcement things can be created and modified here: MediaWiki:Sitenotice

More info here.

--Jhannah 10:13, 2 July 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Extensions

GMOD runs these, they might be worth checking out: Cite, ProcessSite, TableEdit

--Jhannah 09:21, 6 November 2007 (CST)