Integration with vBulletin - vbMediaWiki Vector

vbMediaWiki Vector

Manual (don't forget to RTFM!)

Interested in doing a translation? PM me

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 What is vbMediaWiki
  • 1.2 The Problem
  • 1.3 What you get
    • 1.3.1 Single sign-on (SSO)
    • 1.3.2 Forum Layout Integration
    • 1.3.3 Search Integration
    • 1.3.4 Advanced Search
    • 1.3.5 "What's New" Integration
    • 1.3.6 "Who's Online" integration
    • 1.3.7 Permissions Settings
    • 1.3.8 User Stats
    • 1.3.9 Wiki Forum Stats *NEW*
    • 1.3.10 XML Sitemap Integration *NEW*
• 2 System Requirements
• 3 Upgrade from an older vbMediaWiki Version
• 4 Installation
  • 4.1 Prepare the Server
  • 4.2 Prepare vBulletin
    • 4.2.1 HTML Character Set
    • 4.2.2 Name Character Set
  • 4.3 Prepare MediaWiki
  • 4.4 Installing vbMediaWiki
    • 4.4.1 Modify and setup the Wiki
    • 4.4.2 Modify and setup the Forum
• 5 Settings
  • 5.1 vbMediaWiki Options
    • 5.1.1 Path
    • 5.1.2 Aliases for "Who's online"
    • 5.1.3 Wiki Database
  • 5.2 Wiki Usergroup Permissions
    • 5.2.1 Wiki Visible
    • 5.2.2 Can Read
    • 5.2.3 Can Login
    • 5.2.4 Is MediaWiki Sysop
    • 5.2.5 Is MediaWiki Bureaucrat
    • 5.2.6 Minimum Forum Posts
• 6 How-to
  • 6.1 How users change the Wiki skin
  • 6.2 How to use the Wiki bbcode for linking wiki pages
  • 6.3 How to disable magic quotes on the server
• 7 vbMediaWiki Manual and Diagnostic script
  • 7.1 The Manual
  • 7.2 The Diagnostic script
  • 7.3 The Admin script *NEW*
• 8 Troubleshooting
  • 8.1 I can edit the Wiki but cannot save anything
  • 8.2 I get "Your edit has been rejected..." when saving wiki pages
  • 8.3 The wiki editor does not look like the one on the screenshots
  • 8.4 I don't have a file called LocalSettings.php

Screenshot Look here!

Changelog Online Version, click here!

vbMediaWiki IRC Channel

I might be online... just try or use the forum
irc://irc.freenode.net/vbmediawiki
http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=vbmediawiki

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[Rolli]

Beta 1.04 did not run with my Skin, has installed the beta 1.01 again with it it functions.

[ConfusedCartman]

Originally Posted by AtomicAcidbath

Seems to have a problem with a couple of other mods.
vbExperience and Movie of the Week (MotW) cause vbMediaWiki to display blank screen after saving additions/edits.

Anyone else running either of these mods w/vbMediaWiki successfully?

I'm running vBExperience and this mod in tandem without any issues. Not sure what the problem could be, though.

[AtomicAcidbath]

Originally Posted by ConfusedCartman

I'm running vBExperience and this mod in tandem without any issues. Not sure what the problem could be, though.

Okay, good to know it does work with it (I can live w/out MotW)
Will try reinstalling vbE, and see if that makes any difference.

[edit]
Nope. Still gives blank page. Tried changing skins just to see if there was any difference, and nope on that too.

Traced to Article.php line 2130 $wgOut->redirect so far. If this line is not executed, the screen displays (but not with the article).
The URL value is correct, but setting $wgOut does something very wrong for some reason. Strangest thing is that vbMediaWiki doesn't even touch it except for the skins.

[gopalfreak]

Hi,

I already installed the mod, too on VB4.0.5 and Mediawiki 1.1.6 - looked great - but however I only see the Wiki inside my VBulletinskin if I am not logged in!

if I login and try to press the Wiki-link in the navbar the "old" Monobookskin comes up completly in a new window.

Tried everything -
$wgSkipSkins[] = all other skins and presettings as vector to default, the only thing that changed: Under my settings in the mediawiki only vector appears - and even in preview all looks fine?!?

Any Ideas? the Tryout of neverused browsers (as IE) showing the same issue...

I haven't deactivated magic quotes yet, but I can't imagine that this would be the reason..
I there any kind of "resistant" cache of sth. inside the mediawiki that kicks out this behaviour?

Edit:

It seams that I found it on my own...
All looks fine now in the vbvectorskin I choosed.
How?
I logged in my Wikiaccount (Admin) and had the monobook skin on my screen - even the skin wasn't in the
skinlist anymore. So I tried "Load default settings" and all was reloaded and now inside the
VB integrated!

BIG THX bepe for this real nice addon.. !!!
Take a beer on my bill..

The only thing I have to find out is how I do this for any user... Even if neccessary (I will test)

[bepe]

Originally Posted by Rik Brown

This mod looks great with an excellent manual in pdf format. As soon as we can upgrade our MediaWiki installation, we intend to give it a try.

Just one question: I see that the mod uses the original vb search indexing. Any chance that you will be adding support for the Sphinx Search option, too? Its so much faster!

Thanks. -- Rik

Where can I get the Sphinx Search plugin for vBulletin 4.0.x? ... I did a short google search, but did not get a usefull result

Originally Posted by Rik Brown

Upgraded my MediaWiki software and did the mod install. Everything went great. I only see one problem so far. The Google ad in our header is not placed properly. It relies on style formatting defined in vb's additional.css. Any chance to address this issue?

Thanks for a great product! -- Rik

Could you send me a link to the forum?

Originally Posted by ConfusedCartman

I love the product, but I have to ask: How would I go about re-enabling logo display? The path to the logo in LocalSettings.php is accurate, the problem is the logo is completely removed from the display page. I'd like to re-include it, if possible.

Ok, I'll try to add it to the next release in some way

Originally Posted by Mukashi

A question bepe. How exactly does the single sign-on work here exactly?

I already have a large forum (not yet on vB4, but soon-ish) and large wiki's (tied together with the centralauth mod, giving them a single account signon).

bmgf.bulbagarden.net
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net
bulbanews.bulbagarden.net
archives.bulbagarden.net (Image Repository)

Because we have a name-change feature enabled on our forums, what we've really been looking for is something that'd allow users to associate their wiki account with their forums account ID number, rather than linking based on name. Perhaps making it so the association has to be confirmed by having them just login to it (as an existing vB3 mod we have allows them to do to associate multiple forum accounts, as we allow users in some RP's to have
accounts specifically for their characters).

If your mod can't do this kind of thing yet, is there any chance you might introduce such a feature in the future? Something like that would make things a lot easier for those of us who'd love to have integration, but have been running separate forums and wiki(s) for years.

When the user in some way accesses the wiki there is automatically a wiki account created. The accounts are bound by the names, not the ID, so that would not be good for your case.

I've already searched for a way to do it by ID, funny thing is that now with the final of 1.16 it looks like it is possible... I'll look into it

[oddball118]

Originally Posted by bepe

no, should not be a problem... could you send be the link to your forum via PM?

PM Sent

[gopalfreak]

Edited

[gopalfreak]

Edited

[Rolli]

Dankeschön bepe läuft jetzt erste Sahne!Bis auf das eine siehe PN.

[Rik Brown]

Originally Posted by bepe

Where can I get the Sphinx Search plugin for vBulletin 4.0.x? ... I did a short google search, but did not get a usefull result.

The mod is actually over on vbulletin.com. Once installed, you get the option to turn on the Sphinx Search via your admincp.

Here is the thread.

As an alternative, I see that Mediawiki now has a Sphinx Search extension. I'm thinking to give that a try as well. Perhaps you could make that an option to choose between vb's search and Mediawiki's search using Sphinx Search.

I'll also pm you a link to our problem with the additional.css formatting issue.

Thanks. -- Rik

UPDATE: Checked on the Mediawiki site and the SphinxSearch extension doesn't work on Mediawiki 1.16 yet.