Wikiable scribble

Process specification

Administrator — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:58:46 +0000

Page creation process

Category menu selection
The items registered in sidebar are listed in check boxes.
Associated elements & functions:
Body text insertion field
Image selection
By way of new window popping up by button, will extract the image from local hard drive. both movie and the download data are the same in functioning
Movie selection
The movie chosen by uploading plays on another screen.
Data selection for downloading
The various file formats of data for downloading on its page can be up-loaded some file formats shall be deemed ZIP compression
Reference link insertion field
An external link for reference consisting of title and comment.

Auto TOC registration process
Batch processing process
With the input informations prepared beforehand from the Excel documents, this automatically converts data at one go by batch processing.

Mail delivery functional process
The update notification service every week involving updated day and hour that are regularly delivered with the title and the link.

Conceptual scheme

Administrator — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:54:43 +0000

Main page
Functioning as table of contents listing in alphabetical arrangement for each word posted

Word pages
Common editable page to illustrate the meanings of word by specific modes as follows:

Description
Pictures
Movies
Download files
Reference links

Category pages
Listing words falling into each category in alphabetical arrangement. Each word page shall be deemed one or more category.

History pages
Storing edit history listing of when and who edited each page.

Special pages
These are created by the software on demand. They are located in their own namespace Special: and are not editable directly as other pages. Some special pages depend on the preferences that have been set by a user, e.g. the number of titles which is displayed on a user’s watchlist.

Multi language activation

Administrator — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:50:01 +0000

To enable multi language site in Mediawiki, it requires Mediawiki installation per language. For example, enabling mutual linkage for corresponded words in English, simplified Chinese and Thai is requiring three Mediawiki installations.

To do so, install mediawiki for the number of language you need, and specify unique prefix for each of database table prefix during installation.
After installation, open MySQL to replace column in interwiki table to be recognized of each identity as follows:
For Chinese version, the following lets them identify English, its URL and some attributions:
SELECT cw_interwiki.iw_prefix FROM cw_interwiki;
REPLACE INTO cw_interwiki (iw_prefix,iw_url,iw_local,iw_trans) VALUES(’en’,'http://www.URL.com/wiki/index.php?title=$1′,0,0);

For English version, just do vice versa way:
SELECT mw_interwiki.iw_prefix FROM mw_interwiki;
REPLACE INTO mw_interwiki (iw_prefix,iw_url,iw_local,iw_trans) VALUES(’zh-cn’,'http://www.URL.com/ch_wiki/index.php?title=$1′,0,0);
After all done, go somewhere you can edit page, and link to somewhere in other language, like for example, you have created page named "test" in both English and Chinese… In Chinese page, it may be specified as [[en:test]] to go to corresponded page in English, and vice versa in English page, like [[zh-cn:test]]

Enabling video files playback2

Administrator — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:22:44 +0000

Through advisory help of Mr. Yeraze, video is finally played amazingly with the following step:

Downloaded the vPIP Package(version 1.10 ) from http://wiki.vpip.org/index.php?title=All_Other_Installs
Copy the lines from the following URL, and paste those to between and in monobook.php, then replace lines with actual URL
http://wiki.vpip.org/index.php?title=All_Other_Installs
Download the VPIPPlugin and unzip it and ensure there is two images(DownloadButton.gif, PlayButton.gif) and vPIP.php inside the folder "vPIPPlugin"
place those 2 GIF images somewhere, I put those under "wiki/images"
place the vPIP.php under "wiki/extensions", and specify location of a image in source code where you can find line with "img src" tag near bottom.
Modified LocalSettings.php adding: require_once("$IP/extensions/vPIP.php")
After all these done, go to "Special:Version" page, ensure there is added
Specify those attributions where you want video to play, following same way as follows:

url=
height=
width=
image=
title=
caption=
download=
type=
If it ends up displaying 2 square vacant objects, problem may be in source code of vPIP.php, using the one provided by URL below may solve.
http://www.yeraze.com/staticpages/index.php/20070813105349196

Lastly thank you for your support Mr. Yazae!

Enabling video files playback

Administrator — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:29:36 +0000

One of a means I’ve found was use of vPHP that is a plug-in that enable videos playing in place dynamically embedding after the viewer clicks on its link. However, plug-in provided can’t seem working without any file inside zip archive found after I unpack it.

Managing rights level

Administrator — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:20:00 +0000

To change the access levels of users in each groups, alter attribution in "includes/DefaultSettings.php"

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_levels

Installation summary

Administrator — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:47:47 +0000

After the long journey, I hereby summarize achievement with the following listed everything I have installed to run Mediawiki. Important points are commonly those path mistakes as well as comment out issues found in configuration file as is always the case with installation.

Server Environment:

Internet Information Services (IIS)
Windows Server 2003 Standard Editioon Version 5.2

Softwares:

Mediawiki-1.9.3
mediawiki-1.9.3.tar.gz
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
PHP5.2.3
php-5.2.3-Win32.zip
http://www.php.net/downloads.php
MySQL Server 5.0
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html

PHP Installation:

Download php-5.2.3-Win32.zip and extract zip archive
Rename directory with PHP, and move it under C drive
- php-5.2.3-Win32 -> PHP (change of directory name)
- C:¥PHP (move directory)
Move php.ini-dist
- C:¥PHP¥php.ini-dist => C:¥WINDOWS¥php.ini
  (change file name and move to WINDOWS directory)
- Also to work with MySQL subsequently, ensure the php_mysql.dll and php_mysqli.dll dlls were in the ext folder of PHP, open your php.ini file to remove the following comments(semicolon):
  ;extension=php_mysql.dll
  ;extension=php_mysqli.dll
- Change the extension_dir parameter to point to "c:\php\ext"
- To enable email sending to registered users(from mediawiki), you go to PHP.ini, and alter the line "SMTP = localhost" to actual SMTP server name you are using.
To register php5isapi.dll to IIS, you first open IIS Manager and click Web Service Extensions then go on to click Add a new Web service extension
On the New Web Service Extention, key in "PHP" in extention name field then click "Add"
Subsequently, Key in the path of php5isapi.dll then click "ok"
- C:¥PHP¥php5isapi.dll
Tick the checkbox Set extension status to Allowed
Go to left panel of "Web sites", right click properties on a web service you are going on.
Press Home Directory tab and press Configuration, and then press "Add" on Add/Edit Application Extension Mapping window
Set everything up as follows:

Executable: C:\PHP\php5isapi.dll
Extension: .php
Script engine: check

After everything is done, restart IIS server with iisreset command on the prompt

MySQL Installation:
Install MySQL to the default directory using the default options:

Download MySQL Server 5.0 and just follow the installer
Select “Detailed Configuration”
Choose “Developer Machine”
Choose “MultiFunctional Database”
Select path for Data, this configuration used the default location.
Choose “Decision Support (DSS)/OLAP
Enable TCP/IP Networking on 3306 and Enable Strict Mode
Enable standard character set
Install as a Windows Service and set to launch automatically, check “Include Bin Directory in Windows PATH”
Enter a Root Password
Create the setup
Not to skip InnoDB, find a configuration file my.ini under your MySQL program directory, and just disable the line skip-innodb with hatch "#", otherwise it will disturb your Mediawiki installation.
Sources said InnoDB is the most popular transactional storage engine for MySQL also known as one of a various table in MySQL enabling functions such as commit, rollback, clash recovery, etc.

Mediawiki Installation:

Download zip package from website and extract
Alter directory name from Mediawiki-1.9.3 to wiki, and move its directory to anywhere you like where PHP is applied
Open web browser and connect to its URL which may be http://localhost/wiki/index.php
With sunflower shown on the browser, you can start installing Mediawiki, then just click the word below flower
Fill up everything followed by, then click the button at bottom.
If you stuck in trouble during installation, please go check again those configuration files of MySQL and PHP

Install Guides

Administrator — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:35:03 +0000

These two concretely describe about how to install and set Mediawiki in more detail (All written in Japanese)

Wiki Installation guide:
Installation tips explaining by kind and proper procedure of what it needs and what shape it is in

http://qwik.jp/wikibana-gihyo/MediaWikiSample.html
Tips for PHP/Perl on Windows2003 Server:
My PHP installation went well actually by this way
http://www.spencernetwork.com/windows-sp7.php

How to add User in MySQL?

Administrator — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:57:26 +0000

To add super user in MySQL with the username "gep", put the following two commands at prompt

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO gep@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘password‘ WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO gep@"%" IDENTIFIED BY ‘password‘ WITH GRANT OPTION;

Wiki Installation Note

Administrator — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:52:02 +0000

Wiki name: Engineering Dictionery
Contact e-mail: ito@isidsea.com
Language: en - English
Copyright/license: No license metadata
Admin username: wikisid
Password: ********
Password confirm: ********
Shared memory caching: No caching
Memcached servers:

E-mail: Enabled
User-to-user e-mail: Enabled
E-mail notification: Enabled for user_talk and watch list changes (not recommended for large wikis)
E-mail authentiction: Enabled

Database type: MySQL
SQL server host: localhost
Database name: wikidb
DB username: gep
DB password: ********
DB password confirm: ********
Database table prefix: mw_
Database charset: Backwards-compatible UTF-8

Superuser account: root
Superuser password: