Media Wiki Operations

External

• MediaWiki FAQ: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ

Internal

• Media Wiki

Get Media Wiki Version

Look up "$wgVersion" in includes/DefaultSettings.php.

Alternatively go to Tools → Special Pages → Version

Installation

Media Wiki Installation

Back Up a Wiki

Backing Up a MediaWiki Instance

Restoring a Wiki into the Same or Newer MediaWiki Version

Restoring a Wiki into the Same or Newer MediaWiki Version

Moving a Wiki

• External: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki

Steps:

1. Backup the source wiki
2. Transfer backups from the old server to the new one
3. Restore the backup on the new server

Lessons learned after performing a not500 export and a now510 import:

• The wiki users carry passwords over (as expected, they're stored in the database).
• MySQL export/import went fine:

mysqldump -h localhost -u <old-user> -p --default-character-set=binary <old-database> > novaordis-wiki.sql
mysql -u <new-user> -p <new-database> < novaordis-wiki.sql

• Only the "image" content need to be transferred, and I needed to restore ownership to apache:apache and run

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t ./images

Create a User

Special pages -> Login / create account -> Create Account. Or Special:UserLogin/signup.

Get the List of All Users

Special Pages -> Users and rights -> User list. Or Special:ListUsers.

Locate the php.ini File

PHP | Locate the php.ini File

Upgrade a Wiki

Upgrading MediaWiki