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Contents 1 Installing Wiki 2 Configuring Wiki 2.1 Changing the pretty pictures 2.2 Moving the main content and actions tabs 2.3 Changing navigation menu 2.4 IntraWiki Linking 3 Administration 3.1 Give user Sysop

Installing Wiki

Software: MediaWiki 1.4.4 (See Special:Version)

Configuring Wiki

Changing the pretty pictures

Top background picture for the monobook theme	/skins/monobook/headbg.jpg
Site logo in left hand upper corner*	/skins/common/images/wiki.png

* currently disabled in LocalSettings.php

Moving the main content and actions tabs

edit skins/monobook/main.css

Moving content down a bit to allow for background image to show more

#content {
   margin: 6.2em 0 0 12.2em; /* changed to move content down a bit for tlug graphic */
   ipadding: 0em 1em 1.5em 1em;
   background: White;
   border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
   border-right: none;
   line-height: 1.5em;
   position: relative;
   z-index: 2;

Beinging the tabs down to where the content is (current setting)

/*
** the page-related actions- page/talk, edit etc
*/
#p-cactions {
    position:absolute;
    top: 4.3em;  /* changed to being tabs down number not important as long as big enough */

Changing navigation menu

Example to add say, a Documentation menu:

1. copy the wiki.heinous.org/htdocs/includes/DefaultSettings.php section that looks like:

/** Navigation links for the user sidebar.
 * 'text' is the name of the MediaWiki message that contains the label of this link
 * 'href' is the name of the MediaWiki message that contains the link target of this link.
 *        Link targets starting with http are considered remote links. Ones not starting with
 *        http are considered as names of local wiki pages.
 */
$wgNavigationLinks = array (
        array( 'text'=>'mainpage',      'href'=>'mainpage' ),
        array( 'text'=>'portal',        'href'=>'portal-url' ),
        array( 'text'=>'currentevents', 'href'=>'currentevents-url' ),
        array( 'text'=>'recentchanges', 'href'=>'recentchanges-url' ),
        array( 'text'=>'randompage',    'href'=>'randompage-url' ),
        array( 'text'=>'help',          'href'=>'helppage' ),
        array( 'text'=>'sitesupport',   'href'=>'sitesupport-url' ),
);

to the end of wiki.heinous.org/htdocs/LocalSettings.php

1. edit wiki.heinous.org/htdocs/LocalSettings.php and modify for the new menu:

$wgNavigationLinks = array (
        array( 'text'=>'mainpage',      'href'=>'mainpage' ),
        array( 'text'=>'documentation', 'href'=>'documentation-url' ),
        array( 'text'=>'portal',        'href'=>'portal-url' ),
        array( 'text'=>'currentevents', 'href'=>'currentevents-url' ),
        array( 'text'=>'recentchanges', 'href'=>'recentchanges-url' ),
        array( 'text'=>'randompage',    'href'=>'randompage-url' ),
        array( 'text'=>'help',          'href'=>'helppage' ),
        array( 'text'=>'sitesupport',   'href'=>'sitesupport-url' ),
);

Try not to panic when the menu looks to be a mess at first

1. edit as Sysop MediaWiki:Documentation and add what you want the title text in the new navigation menu to be:

Documentation

1. edit as Sysop [pMediaWiki:Documentation-url]] and add what the name of the page to actually be (http://wiki.heinous.org/index.php/Documentation):

Documentation

IntraWiki Linking

For the truly lazy:

mysql -u root -p
use wikidb;
INSERT INTO interwiki VALUES ('tlug','http://tlug.ss.org/wiki/$1','1');

Create links then like:

[[tlug:Main_Page]]

Administration

Give user Sysop

Sysop should go to: Special:Makesysop