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Site Notes / History

• 23/12/2016 Robert --
  • This page MediaWiki:Common.css contains site wide CSS additions.
    • Added CSS to hide title on home page. See MediaWiki FAQ Help
  • This page MediaWiki:Bottom-notice-ns-0 contains a common page footer text. Had to install Extension: PageNotice Help
• 24/12/2016 Robert -- Overrun of spam so reenabled some old settings in wiki/LocalSettings.php

Installed Extensions and LocalSettings.php changes

• # Extension - PageNotice. Create global page header and footers.
  • LocalSettings.php text added: require_once "$IP/extensions/PageNotice/PageNotice.php";
• # RWC - Turn off user skin choice -- $wgAllowUserSkin = false;
• Added googleAnalytics Extension "googleAnalytics"
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsAccount = 'UA-89413061-1'; # Our GoogleAnalytics UA number
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreSpecials = array( 'Userlogin', 'Userlogout', 'Preferences', 'ChangePassword', 'OATH'); # Ignore these oages
  • // Use 'noanalytics' permission to exclude specific user groups from web analytics, e.g.
  • $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['noanalytics'] = true;
  • $wgGroupPermissions['bot']['noanalytics'] = true;
• Added Spam control Extensions "BlockAndNuke"; Special page = "Block and Nuke". Allows mass blocking and deleting of user contributions.
• Added Spam control Extensions "UserMerge"; Special page = "Merge and delete users". Allows to merge users into single user we call "Spammer"

Rob: Note this is a copy of old installed extensions (these below are not installed)

PageNotice

Common page header / footer.

• mediawiki:Top-notice-ns-0 -- Edit common page header notice
• mediawiki:Bottom-notice-ns-0 -- Edit common page footer notice (not currently used)
• PageNotice Extension Help

Google +1

6-Jul-2011 Allows you to include Google +1 button in 4 different versions very simply.

• Google1 Extension Help
• Google +1 Info page | Another +1 Info page

With the tag

<google1></google1> (same as default Small version)

• Version 1:

  <google1 style="1"></google1> (Small version)

• Version 2:

  <google1 style="2"></google1> (Medium version)

• Version 3:

  <google1 style="3"></google1> (Standard version)

• Version 4:

  <google1 style="4"></google1> (Tall version)

<google1 style="1"></google1> <google1 style="2"></google1> <google1 style="3"></google1> <google1 style="4"></google1>

Google1_mod.php

Notice the Google1.php only allows one +1 per page. So I created a modified version called Google1_mod.php (which is currently running).
The spec says you can put more than one +1 on a page if you use the href="" attribute to specify the associated URL (you can not use an invalid URL or add a bookmark)
In this modified version you can use style=1,2,3,4 same as above or "small", "medium", "standard", or "tall".
Note: Using Google's embedded code pings the Google server so don't be surprised if your page runs a little slower.

The original code always included script. In the modified code if you use href="" then no script is respecified.
If all your google1 code contains href="" then somewhere in the page add the following to invisibly add the google script include

• <google1 style="script"></google1>

Examples:

• <google1 style="small" href="http://website.com/page1"></google1>

• <google1 style="medium" href="http://website.com/page2"></google1>

• <google1 style="standard" href="http://website.com/page3"></google1>

• <google1 style="tall" href="http://website.com/page4"></google1>

These do not function 100% because the URLs are fictitious. Google wants real URLs. So normally you would use the link to the .PDF etc next to the +1.
<google1 style="small" href="http://opensourcehelminththerapy.org/mediawiki2/title=Help:Editing001"></google1> <google1 style="medium" href="http://opensourcehelminththerapy.org/mediawiki2/title=Help:Editing002"></google1> <google1 style="standard" href="http://opensourcehelminththerapy.org/mediawiki2/title=Help:Editing003"></google1> <google1 style="tall" href="http://opensourcehelminththerapy.org/mediawiki2/title=Help:Editing004"></google1>

• <google1 href="http://website.com/page1"></google1>

• <google1 style="1" href="http://website.com/page1"></google1>

<google1 href="http://opensourcehelminththerapy.org/mediawiki2/title=Help:Editing"></google1> <google1 style="1" href="http://opensourcehelminththerapy.org/mediawiki2/title=Help:Editing"></google1>

NoTitle

Put __NOTITLE__ on any pages where you want to hide the title.

• NoTitle Extension Help

EmbedVideo

Embed web video such as YouTube

• EmbedVideo Extension Help

Example:

Log of Changers

File: \mediawiki2\LocalSettings.php

# monobook is the old Wikipedia skin
$wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook';    # was 'modern'
# this means existing users preferences  are set to monobook as well. Instead remaining on modern.
$wgAllowUserSkin = false;  
		
## Set page logo
$wgLogo = "wormLogo.png";
		
## Set site icon
$wgFavicon = "wormLogo.ico";

# Extension -  EmbedVideo code. Enable the embedding of videos.
# See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideoPlus 
require_once('extensions/EmbedVideo/EmbedVideo.php');
		
# Extension - NoTitle. Add __NoTitle__ to any page to hide the title.
# See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NoTitle
require_once("$IP/extensions/NoTitle/NoTitle.php");

# Extension - ParserFunctions (use by imported MediaWiki Templates)
# See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" );
# If you want to use the integrated string function functionality
$wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true;

# Extension - GoogleAnalytics
# http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleAnalytics

# RWC 14-Mar-2011, Users can no longer create accounts
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

Other

• Special:ListUsers/sysop