Help:Wiki_Configuration

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Information about wiki software

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Mirrors

Troublesome characters: The following high-ascii characters don't work well for the mirroring process, and have been fixed

  • ‘single quotes’ (use ' instead)
  • dash – dash (use - instead)
  • “double quotes” (use " instead)

Changing the overall wiki appearance

The Side bar menu

Edit the left 'navigation' sidebar: Mediawiki:Sidebar

Images used in layout

The top left logo: Image:Recoup trans 150.png

The background image: Image:Headbg.jpg‎

Changing page appearances: Templates

See Help:Templates. Templates are also listed in the Category:Templates.

Additional Javascript and css

See MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css.

Modifications of MediaWiki:Common.css:

  • Hide the page titles for manual pages. When changing or removing page title of manual pages, the css needs to be adjusted to keep the page title hidden.

Modifications of MediaWiki:Common.js:

  • Added extra buttons to edit menu.

Extensions and modifications to the source code

https://oer.opendeved.net/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=RECOUP/site/Help/Wiki Configuration

Customisation of LocalSettings.php: 

# Wiki appearance:
$wgLogo = "http://www.ict4e.net/wiki_source/images/d/dd/Recoup_logo_countries.jpg";
$wgLogo = "http://new-www.mediaplayer.group.cam.ac.uk/wiki/images/4/49/Recoup_trans_150.png";
$wgFavicon = "/wiki/favicon.ico";

# Add subpages to NS_MAIN:
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_MAIN] = true;

# Custom written file-size extension:
require_once("extensions/FileSize.php");

# Google Analytics Extension:
require_once( "$IP/extensions/googleAnalytics/googleAnalytics.php" );
$wgGoogleAnalyticsAccount = "UA-5575628-1";
# Optional Variables (both default to true)
$wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreSysops = false;
$wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreBots = false;

# While testing, stop caching:
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;
$wgMessageCacheType = CACHE_NONE;
$wgParserCacheType = CACHE_NONE;
$wgCachePages = false;

# User settings:
$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
# http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions
$wgDefaultUserOptions['numberheadings' ] = 1;
$wgDefaultUserOptions['enotifwatchlistpages'] = 1;
$wgDefaultUserOptions['enotifusertalkpages'] = 1;
$wgDefaultUserOptions['enotifminoredits'] = 1;
$wgDefaultUserOptions['justify'] = 1;

Cc-by-nc-sa-narrow.png Singal, N., and Jeffery, R. (2008). Qualitative Research Skills Workshop: A Facilitator's Reference Manual, http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/RECOUP, Cambridge: RECOUP (Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. (original page)

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