Prototyping 2020.01.13

Mediawiki as development archive and editorial space

text, images, pdf (audio)
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Projects where MW serves as backed to other reading interfaces

static

Mondotheque / The Radiated Book

• wiki Main Page
• wiki - publication index
• Resulting PDF
• Wiki to Print scripts

PZI Graduation website

• Resulting website: https://www.lensbased.nl/
• Wiki Pages
• Wiki to Web scripts

Natasha Berting: Warnet

• Project wiki: https://hub.xpub.nl/warnet/
• Process documentation: User:Tash/grad_prototyping3
• Wiki to Print: Game Cards

dynamic

Renee Turner: Warp Weft Memory

• Website: http://warpweftmemory.net/#/notes
• Interview https://www.pandemic.space/2018/10/31/the-warp-and-weft-of-memory/

Femke Snelting & Michael Murtaugh: Tonnelstof

• http://toneelstof.be/
• Wiki: http://toneelstof.be/w
• Project description
• Presentation at SMWCon

Pages on Wiki based Publishing

• Wiki
• Wiki publishing

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Access to sandbox Pi

• url: http://hub.xpub.nl/sandbox
• tinc IP: 10.0.0.11

How to SSH to HUB nodes

On the user's personal machine (where the public key was generated) just:

ssh -J xpub.nl:2501 $IP

If for any reason it doesnt work, please send us the output of:

ssh -J xpub.nl:2501 $IP -vvv

~/.ssh/config

Here is a ssh configuration which should allow you to ssh easily from your local machine to one of the Hub nodes

using only:

ssh hub.nodename

By adding to ~/.ssh/config the following configuration, and changing with the correct details:

Host hub.nodename 
User username
Hostname  10.0.0.XXX
ProxyJump username@xpub.nl:2501
Identityfile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Serveraliveinterval 30

Where:

• nodename: is the name you would like to give this node of hub.
• XXX: termination if node's IP
• username: your username in the Pi and Xpub server (should be the same)
• ~/.ssh/id_rsa location of the private keys

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Mediawiki install:

Follow instructions at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide

Dependencies installed:

• webserver: Apache
• PHP7.3 + necessary extensions
• imagemagick
• MYSQL server
  • create db & db user for wiki

Install MediaWiki

• Download MW .tar.gz folder to the the html/ dir of this machine, usually `/var/www/html`
• untar `tar xfvz mediawiki-1.34.0.tar.gz`
• change the name on the resulting mw directory, for instance <nowiki>superwiki
• in the browser go to <nowiki>IP.of.server/superwiki for browser based installer
• install extensions:
  • wikieditor
  • OATHAuth

Post Installation

• image uploads
  • enable images upload to designate location (inside MW directory)
  • define formats allowed
  • define maximum size of uploads
    • in MW LocalSettings.php
    • in php.ini

• extensions
  • SimpleBatchUpload
  • Page_Forms
  • Cargo

Mediawiki work groups

Each work group should document its changes and process in the <nowiki>[[Help:]] pages of the itchwiki

<nowiki>Special:SpecialPages and <nowiki>Special:AdminLinks is a good place to look on the wiki for pages that help with Media, Admin, Navigation

Group: Media

• ensure media files can be uploaded
• ensure media are uploaded to the right location: where external harddisk is mounted
• ensure that the upload size limit is large enough to allow for the largest upload
• outline the information that should be included once media is uploaded
• upload the media from the archive, following the process describe in Digital_zines_I:_PDF#Make_a_single_PDF_of_all_the_images
  • why PDFs instead of single images?
  • searchable pdfs

Wiki pages:

• <nowiki>Special:NewFiles
• <nowiki>Special:ListFiles
• <nowiki>Special:MediaStatistics

Mediawiki documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads

itch documentation page <nowiki>Help:Media

Group: Admin

This groups should be responsible for

• creating account to guests & tutors
  • xpub1 + tutors should be given admin rights
• give or revoke rights to users
• keep an eye on active users

Wiki pages:

• <nowiki>Special:AdminLinks
• <nowiki>Special:UserRights

Mediawiki documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:System_administration#Setting_administrative_rights

itch documentation page <nowiki>Help:Administration

Group: Navigation

This groups should be responsible for:

• ensuring important pages of wiki have links in sidebar and main page
• transclude special pages such as <nowiki>

Gitea newrepo03.png Michael Murtaugh
15:26, 20 July 2026
3,765 × 1,984; 310 KB

Gitea newrepo02.png Michael Murtaugh
15:26, 20 July 2026
2,495 × 2,007; 303 KB

Gitea newrepo.png Michael Murtaugh
15:25, 20 July 2026
1,618 × 2,314; 248 KB

Roland-plotter-heist-8.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
3,456 × 4,608; 4.9 MB

Roland-plotter-heist-6.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
4,608 × 3,456; 4.87 MB

Roland-plotter-heist-3.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
3,456 × 4,608; 4.94 MB

Roland-plotter-heist-7.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
3,456 × 4,608; 4.97 MB

Roland-plotter-heist-5.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
4,608 × 3,456; 4.12 MB

Roland-plotter-heist-4.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
3,456 × 4,608; 4.5 MB

Roland-plotter-heist-2.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
4,608 × 3,456; 4.92 MB

Roland-plotter-heist-10.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
4,608 × 3,456; 4.38 MB

Roland-plotter-heist-1.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
3,456 × 4,608; 6.88 MB

Roland-plotter-heist-9.jpg Thijshijsijsjss
18:00, 15 July 2026
4,608 × 3,456; 3.14 MB

Pdf-arranger-screenshot.png C3
16:08, 12 July 2026
1,366 × 768; 118 KB

IMG 1943.jpeg Sevgi
10:34, 5 July 2026
1,080 × 1,247; 178 KB

IMG 1942.jpeg Sevgi
10:34, 5 July 2026
1,080 × 1,344; 138 KB

Webring-station.jpeg Kim
14:05, 3 July 2026
3,024 × 4,032; 2.95 MB

Wyn-power.jpeg Kim
13:50, 3 July 2026
3,024 × 4,032; 2.48 MB

Martina-grad-2.jpeg Kim
12:06, 3 July 2026
3,024 × 4,032; 2.13 MB

Martina-grad.jpeg Kim
12:05, 3 July 2026
3,024 × 4,032; 3.03 MB

Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 15.06.16.png Youjung
15:06, 30 June 2026
1,042 × 1,482; 142 KB

Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 15.02.11.png Youjung
15:03, 30 June 2026
365 × 1,024; 143 KB

Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 15.02.03.png Youjung
15:03, 30 June 2026
365 × 1,024; 98 KB

Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 15.01.48.png Youjung
15:02, 30 June 2026
365 × 1,026; 412 KB

Internalservererror.png Youjung
13:45, 30 June 2026
2,322 × 308; 293 KB

Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 13.20.18.png Youjung
13:21, 30 June 2026
313 × 683; 28 KB

Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 13.20.08.png Youjung
13:20, 30 June 2026
313 × 683; 45 KB

Sergios grand day out web.png Youjung
13:19, 30 June 2026
313 × 683; 148 KB

Sergioonthecar.jpg Youjung
19:54, 23 June 2026
3,024 × 4,032; 2.68 MB

RasPberry pi.jpg Imre
14:35, 23 June 2026
4,032 × 3,024; 3.81 MB

Terminal.jpg Imre
14:34, 23 June 2026
4,032 × 3,024; 5 MB

Choices game.png Imre
13:27, 23 June 2026
2,718 × 1,388; 264 KB

Busses game 2.png Imre
13:19, 23 June 2026
2,838 × 1,436; 541 KB

Busses game.png Imre
13:18, 23 June 2026
2,644 × 1,222; 639 KB

Cover of the game.jpg Wyn
11:53, 23 June 2026
1,515 × 998; 62 KB

Living room in game.jpg Wyn
11:50, 23 June 2026
3,023 × 1,648; 152 KB

Webpage of the chanting machine.gif Wyn
11:07, 23 June 2026
600 × 328; 137 KB

Minathehollowerspecs.png Barbs
10:34, 23 June 2026
616 × 245; 40 KB

Talisman wiki screenshot.png Charlie
10:12, 23 June 2026
610 × 1,210; 240 KB

Paracosmospress aboutsection.png Charlie
09:48, 23 June 2026
1,080 × 978; 294 KB

0002 workshops.png Charlie
08:58, 23 June 2026
2,694 × 384; 59 KB

0000 zines.png Charlie
08:58, 23 June 2026
1,386 × 400; 21 KB

Collective correspondances screenshot.png Charlie
08:31, 23 June 2026
1,080 × 1,390; 341 KB

Thought on animism screenshot.png Charlie
08:22, 23 June 2026
1,160 × 1,012; 299 KB

Soldering.jpg Wyn
02:33, 23 June 2026
1,200 × 1,600; 172 KB

Qinyuan production line.png Wyn
02:26, 23 June 2026
2,000 × 1,332; 2.16 MB

Original solar buddha machine.png Wyn
01:58, 23 June 2026
3,072 × 2,304; 5.92 MB

Solar buddha machine.png Wyn
01:57, 23 June 2026
1,654 × 1,168; 332 KB

Buddha Machine inner.png Wyn
01:57, 23 June 2026
2,338 × 1,654; 636 KB

Hand hold.png Wyn
01:35, 23 June 2026
1,404 × 982; 2.11 MB

to main page

• if wished change the CSS in <nowiki>MediaWiki:Common.css

Wiki pages:

• <nowiki>MediaWiki:Sidebar
• <nowiki>Main_Page

Mediawiki documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar

itch documentation page <nowiki>Help:Navigation