Integration with vBulletin - vbMediaWiki Vector

vbMediaWiki Vector

Manual (don't forget to RTFM!)

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• 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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[Wayne@R32oc]

brilliant bepe. Installed flawlessly. You can view at http://www.r32oc.com

Im a mediawiki noob, never used it before. But whats the quickest and easiest way for members to contribute?

[bepe]

Every forum member is allowed to change the content of the wiki and I'm sure many of them know how to do it from using http://en.wikipedia.org (it's really the same wiki software).

Just search for a word like "test" in your wiki (left search bar!), if it's not in your wiki already, then you will get a page telling you that you can create that article:

Create the page "Test" on this wiki!

Click on that "Test" link -> so you can write the content of that page.

You should make a start and setup some content on the main page by using the "Edit" link above the page content... how too? ... I cannot explain that, you need to do some research about that.
For a start: Help:Contents User's Guide

There are many MediaWiki's out there, and you can look into the source code of the main pages to get some examples.

The wiki syntax is easy to learn and you'll create soon nice articles.

Another thing, you should download/install the Extension:UsabilityInitiative
Your search field will look nicer and you will get a nicer page editor toolbar.
- download the file from that link and extract the "UsabilityInitiative" folder to the "wiki\extensions" folder.
- Add the following code to the very end of your LocalSettings.php:

PHP Code:

# Some lines to add to LocalSettings.php to get these extensions up and running:

# Vector enhancements (CollapsibleTabs, SimpleSearch, EditWarning)
require_once( "$IP/extensions/UsabilityInitiative/Vector/Vector.php" );

# Vector enhancements config
# global: Enabled for everyone, users can't disable in preferences (FIXME this behavior should change)
# user: Disabled by default, users can enable in preferences
# Shown values are defaults
$wgVectorModules = array(
    'collapsibletabs' => array( 'global' => true, 'user' => false ), // Doesn't have a user pref
    'editwarning' => array( 'global' => false, 'user' => true ),
    'simplesearch' => array( 'global' => true, 'user' => false ), // Doesn't have a user pref
);
# To really enable SimpleSearch (FIXME)
$wgVectorUseSimpleSearch = true;

# WikiEditor (Toolbar, Toc, Preview, Highlight)
require_once( "$IP/extensions/UsabilityInitiative/WikiEditor/WikiEditor.php" );

# WikiEditor config
$wgWikiEditorModules = array(
    'highlight' => array( 'global' => true, 'user' => true ),
    'preview' => array( 'global' => true, 'user' => true ),
    'toc' => array( 'global' => true, 'user' => true ),
    'toolbar' => array( 'global' => true, 'user' => true ),
); 


done

[sapphiremagus]

Found a couple other things that don't play nice with certain wiki setups.

My wiki uses short urls (/wiki/Page Name). A lot of the functionality of this product seems to want to use (/wiki/index.php?title=Page Name). This causes the link to try to access (/wiki/Index.php) as a new wiki page.

This occurs primarily in the user profile links and the wiki BB code.

[bepe]

Originally Posted by sapphiremagus

Found a couple other things that don't play nice with certain wiki setups.

My wiki uses short urls (/wiki/Page Name). A lot of the functionality of this product seems to want to use (/wiki/index.php?title=Page Name). This causes the link to try to access (/wiki/Index.php) as a new wiki page.

This occurs primarily in the user profile links and the wiki BB code.

you need to set the "Path" in the vbMediaWiki options to '../w', that will solve the problem.

[sapphiremagus]

Originally Posted by bepe

you need to set the "Path" in the vbMediaWiki options to '../w', that will solve the problem.

... I'm a moron , thank you

[bferrell]

OK, so I reverted that template, and now the Wiki tab and navbar are OK, but for some reason I still don't get the edit option even though I'm an admin and admins have all YES in WIKI usergroup perms.

Brett

[Wayne@R32oc]

awesome Bepe, worked a charm thank you! Voted, great support!

[Bossland]

Cant create any articles as i dont see any option for create ... even i am am admin and everything is set to "YES"

what i dont understand is that setting:

Can Login
No Wiki account will be created, so the user cannot edit or create pages ....

So IF "Can Login" IS == YES i am not able to create any page ?!?!?! how can i then even create something

[AfterWorldForum]

bepe was a big help in figuring out why the mod was not working correctly on my board (turned out another mod was causing trouble). I'm truly impressed with his servive

[linuxwhy]

it`s fantastic,great!