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===Developer Completed 2018-2019=== {{collapse top}} * Add EmbedVideo extension from <nowiki>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo</nowiki> to allow us to embed YouTube or Vimeo clips, eg Linda Crowhurst's on Severe M.E., videos for symptoms like muscle twitches, myclonus, and advocacy clips/explanations - the MEAnalysis PACE video for instance - this would help those with photophobia * WikimediaMessages added * Skins: Add a stable dark/dark grey skin that's mobile friendly (and migraine friendly) eg [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Timeless-DarkCSS Timeless DarkCSS] as custom CSS on [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Timeless Timeless] skin - requested by [[User:Notjusttired]] * Skins: Add [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Pivot Pivot] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Foreground Foreground] (both mobile friendly), consider defaulting to Pivot for all mobile devices requested by [[User:Notjusttired]] * Add the Visual Editor to the “MEpedia:” and “Help:” namespaces so new contributors don’t need to learn wikitext to edit a page. To do this, first verify that "MEpedia" is listed in $wgExtraNamespaces in LocalSettings.php, then add the following to the LocalSettings.php file: <code><nowiki> $wgVisualEditorAvailableNamespaces = [ "Help" => true, "MEpedia" => true ]; </nowiki></code>(Requested by Pyrrhus, Feb 2019) * allow search engines to crawl the Files namespace eg <nowiki>http://me-pedia.org/wiki/File:example.jpg</nowiki> so images come up when doing Google search on images for reuse requested by [[User:Notjusttired]] * Install [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:AddThis|AddThis extension]] for sharing - if poss with Facebook, Twitter and pinterest links showing - requested by [[User: * Turn on setting to autofix redirects in LocalSettings.php - as per Mediawiki configuration info - requested by [[User:Notjusttired]] * Can '''Citation bot''' be set up for all new users - see Wikipedia for link & institutions (Requester unknown) :This task has been abandoned because the required PHP compilation, template setup, and bot registration is beyond the capabilities of our developers. See https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot for more details. [[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 22:01, 22 May 2019 (EDT) * Add the following to LocalSettings.php, as requested by our hosting company at https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/217292577-MediaWiki-overview (requested by Pyrrhus, May 2019) <pre> $wgMaxShellMemory = 524288; $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo = true; </pre> * Add the following to LocalSettings.php, as described in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Diffs (requested by Pyrrhus, May 2019) <pre> $wgVisualEditorEnableDiffPage = true; </pre> * Add the following to the end of LocalSettings.php to disable email on the staging server (staging.me-pedia.org): (Requested by Pyrrhus May 2019) <pre> /* CHECK IF STAGING SERVER DETECTED */ if ((strpos($wgServer, 'staging') !== false) or (strpos($IP, 'staging') !== false)) { $wgLogo = 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Commons-emblem-Under_construction-green.svg'; $wgEnableEmail = false; } </pre> * Fix the wiki emailer so that new users can receive the “confirm your email account” email and so that established users can receive email notifications of changes, etc. (Requested by [[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]], Feb 2019) * Edit pivot skin's Pivot.skin.php to set autocomplete to on for mobile devices only. [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 18:52, May 24, 2019 (EDT) * Fix email sending from MEpedia. Either configure sendmail properly on the production server or configure $wgSMTP properly in the LocalSettings.php file. If we are going to use $wgSMTP, here are some links that provide the exact SMTP information to use: [https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/214918038-Email-client-configuration-overview configuration] and [https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215612887-Email-client-protocols-and-port-numbers protocols]. For $wgSMTP, one can set up a new email account called "donotreply@me-pedia.org" using the DreamHost dashboard: https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=cloud.compute& This new email account can either reject all incoming mail or forward all incoming mail to mepedia @ meaction.net (requested by Pyrrhus May 2019) * Add <code><nowiki>$wgDismissableSiteNoticeForAnons=true;</nowiki></code> to LocalSettings.php file. (Requested by Pyrrhus May 2019) * Consider making the members of the "emailconfirmed" group visible only to administrators. There is a theoretical risk of email spam when anyone can see who has confirmed their email and who hasn't. To do this, simply add $wgImplicitGroups[] = 'emailconfirmed'; to LocalSettings.php. I am not advocating for this action, merely documenting this if it is ever needed. (Removed, since the members of emailconfirmed are already mostly invisible to the public.) * consider adding a "thanks" button if it can be easily adopted from the WMF software (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Thanks) -- really nice way for editors to communicate appreciation to one another that costs many fewer "spoons" than writing/reading a note (suggested by Canele, June 2019) ::I like this idea but can't see any instructions for doing installing this on those pages. I have copied both the <nowiki>{{Thank}} and {{Thank you}} </nowiki>across [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 14:25, July 17, 2019 (EDT) :::There is a [https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Thanks Thanks] extension that will probably do the trick, but we can't install it until after we update the MediaWiki software, unfortunately. :::[[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 22:31, July 17, 2019 (EDT) ::::I didn't think to look there! We can install it, but need a previous version that matches what we have - REL_1_30 I think, and will need to upgrade it once MediaWiki is upgraded. The code is on github, linked to the page. I think this is worth requesting [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 15:04, July 19, 2019 (EDT) :::::Oh super! {{Thank you}} both, [[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] and [[User:Notjusttired|Njt]]! [[User:Canele|Canele]] ([[User talk:Canele|talk]]) 16:42, July 20, 2019 (EDT) * Remove the following from LocalSettings.php. Our new policy is that people need to make 50 edits before they skip the CAPTCHA, regardless of whether they are emailconfirmed or not. (Requested by Pyrrhus May 2019) <pre> $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true; $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true; </pre> * Add the following to https://www.me-pedia.org/robots.txt, under "User-agent: *": (requested by Pyrrhus June 2019) <pre> Disallow: /wiki/MEpedia talk: Disallow: /wiki/File talk: Disallow: /wiki/Help talk: Disallow: /wiki/Category talk: Disallow: /wiki/Portal talk: Disallow: /wiki/User: Disallow: /wiki/User talk: Disallow: /wiki/MediaWiki: Disallow: /wiki/MediaWiki talk: Disallow: /wiki/Template: Disallow: /wiki/Template talk: </pre> ::Is this done now? [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 17:46, August 6, 2019 (EDT) :::Yes! [[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 21:38, August 7, 2019 (EDT) *updating the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia) DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)] extension so that one can order results by popularity. * Add Files name space to sitemap in LocalSettings.php requested by [[User:Notjusttired]] * See [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AddThis AddThis extension documentation] - publisher ID to add to LocalSettings.php '''ra-5cdfe8dacb9028fa''' - requested by [[User:Notjusttired]] - to show sharing options in left menu * Add [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:ReplaceText |ReplaceText]] extension with access for bureaucrats, admins - for updating renamed pages or categories. Requested by [[User:Notjusttired]] * The following addition to the robots.txt file may also be useful as described in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Robots.txt [[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 23:23, 16 May 2019 (EDT) <pre> # Allow the Internet Archiver to index action=raw and thereby store the raw wikitext of pages User-agent: ia_archiver Allow: /*&action=raw </pre> :UPDATE - how do we test this? (User:Notjusttired, May 22,2019) ::[https://me-pedia.org/robots.txt Tested and workin] [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 18:48, May 24, 2019 (EDT) * Add the following to https://www.me-pedia.org/robots.txt to prevent Google from crawling Talk pages: (requested by Pyrrhus May 2019) <pre> Disallow: /wiki/Talk: </pre> * Create a user right group that automatically turns off the CAPTCHA after the user has made 50 edits - requested by [[User:Canele|Canele]] ([[User talk:Canele|talk]]) 18:26, 30 March 2019 (EDT) :One way to accomplish this is to add the following to LocalSettings.php. This will require 50 edits before a user is given the "autoconfirmed" role. (which is different from the "emailconfirmed" role) [[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 22:10, 16 May 2019 (EDT) <pre> $wgAutoConfirmCount = 50; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true; </pre> * Upgrade EmbedVideo extension to latest stable one to fix errors in new skins and add facebook video support [[User:Notjusttired]] * AddThis sharing extension installed * Fix double redirects setting set on LocalSettings.php * Configure [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:Lingo| Lingo extension]] to [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:Lingo#Customization |specify that each term should be annotated only]] (Requested by Notjusttired) *Installs of Pivot and Timeless dark skins * Use [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:OneColumnAllPages|OneColumnAllPages extension]] to [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Internet_Archive configure] web archive access, or other Web Archive solution - requested by [[User:Notjusttired]] {{Collapse bottom}}
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