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

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

Pages on Wiki based Publishing

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

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

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:

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

itch documentation page <nowiki>Help:Media