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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[gopalfreak]

Hi Bepe,

Great Mod (still)
I have to update to 4.0.6 and your new version, too...

Some Things I noticed :

• Wiki Stats for Users = 0 < As you already said.... so I have not to do it
• Would it be possible to configure the BB WikiLink? (as gwiki instead of wiki)
• Would it be possible to add a small Favicon or sth several in front of this Link? I would like to get a "little" WikiIcon of my Wiki
• The VBSearch with wikilinks give often articles that are not really existent (often Pages with underscores (if you need examples I write you a pm with search queries)
• Would it be possible to advance the sitemap Generator to the wiki as for blogs/Cms and articles?

But at all:
Thanks for improving my VB with such great Mod!

[bepe]

Originally Posted by gopalfreak

Hi Bepe,

Great Mod (still)
I have to update to 4.0.6 and your new version, too...

Some Things I noticed :

• Wiki Stats for Users = 0 < As you already said.... so I have not to do it
• Would it be possible to configure the BB WikiLink? (as gwiki instead of wiki)
• Would it be possible to add a small Favicon or sth several in front of this Link? I would like to get a "little" WikiIcon of my Wiki
• The VBSearch with wikilinks give often articles that are not really existent (often Pages with underscores (if you need examples I write you a pm with search queries)
• Would it be possible to advance the sitemap Generator to the wiki as for blogs/Cms and articles?

But at all:
Thanks for improving my VB with such great Mod!

1. You just updated you vb or did you set it up new? ... The stats are content of the vb user table ... so they should not get deleted when updating vb... I might be wrong, since I've never tried
2. yes, would be possible... is your [wiki] tag in use already?
3. Do you mean an icon left to the navbar link or a real favicon on the browsers address bar?
4. yes, please send me an link to your forum and the queries, I'll look into it
5. You mean the XML Sitemap Generator or another plugin?

Sorry for all that questions, but I'm not a really forum owner and I've never used things like that Sitemap thing

[gopalfreak]

Originally Posted by bepe

1. You just updated you vb or did you set it up new? ... The stats are content of the vb user table ... so they should not get deleted when updating vb... I might be wrong, since I've never tried
2. yes, would be possible... is your [wiki] tag in use already?
3. Do you mean an icon left to the navbar link or a real favicon on the browsers address bar?
4. yes, please send me an link to your forum and the queries, I'll look into it
5. You mean the XML Sitemap Generator or another plugin?

Sorry for all that questions, but I'm not a really forum owner and I've never used things like that Sitemap thing

Yes I updates after IMpex Import from PHPBB2Plus to VB3.x - and then Upgraded to VB4.x Publisher (the only way to import the PHPBB information as VB Support told me :/

The WIKI Tag is only in one Testpost in Use...

I only meaned a free configureable Icon - I would like to have an own Icon for my Wiki - as I have to make one for the search results (but I have to Photoshop first) - but that is only to replace - so this should be no Problem...

You get a PN for the queries and example...

THX

[AfterWorldForum]

I just installed the latest version, but in the admincp i am having some trouble saving my settings. The password in particular does not seem to want to be stored anywhere. I get an error 500.

Where does it store the value so I could maybe add it manually?

[bepe]

it's stored with all the vboptions...
Could you send me a link to your forum? ... Would be very interesting for me why you have that problem

Did you have an old version of this mod before installing the new one?

[AfterWorldForum]

Originally Posted by bepe

it's stored with all the vboptions...
Could you send me a link to your forum? ... Would be very interesting for me why you have that problem

Did you have an old version of this mod before installing the new one?

Hi bepe,

Thanks for the reply. I've upgraded www.entropiaplanets.com just yesterday. Took twelve hours all in all (after months of preparations - WTF, VbTeam?), but the results are worth it.

It shows the wiki tab, and even the profile bits. However, I am not sure if/where the database credentials are stored, nor do I have a way to verify if they were saved properly. It would be nice to know where your mod saves its info.

I also noticed the counters on the profile tabs showed 0 for all numbers. Hence me assuming the credential did not make it through.

FWIW, I have trouble with the AdminCP in genera., but I was able to work around the problem with every other field except for the password field. By workaround I mean I entered a single field, and then hit save. If I did see an error, I'd click back and try again. This consistently worked except for the password. I am not even sure I can pinpoint this behaviour to a single mod (and i run many). I've seen it on both my test site as well as on live. I'll keep an eye open when I further update my other forums to see if it occurs again, and will try and see if I can tweak my test environment until I know exactly which mod causes it.

And to answer your last question, I did used to run the MMO wikimedia plugin. I just figured yours was superior to that, so that's what I ended up getting.

Thanks agian for offering to check it out. Let me know if you need more to check things out.

Cheers,

Peter

[crazyace]

Ok installed, and it uses my forum's theme, this looks much better. Thank you so much.

[bepe]

Prepared so much time for the RC... but forgot two things
1. When using the forum skin with the star icon for watch... on a reload of watched page the star is missing
2. The diagnostics script showed missing files

... I've uploaded a fixed version and the fix only for all who installed the unfixed version... just upload the folder inside the xxx_fix.zip to the wiki root, no need to reload the xml or so

[Daryn]

I have a question about the User Registration Regex. I have a few users who have non english characters in their usernames. If I change this setting to allow only alphanumeric characters does this mean that they will be forced to change their userid or otherwise not be able to login? Or will it simply only allow users going forward to only use those specific characters?

[LOGECT]

Great job, Thank you.