Mediawiki 1.35 Migration
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Mediawiki 1.35 LTS migration- author
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⌘⌘ MediaWiki 1.35 LTS
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35
- Long Term Support LTS Version
- End of Life: September 2023.
⌘⌘ Why should i migrate?
- 1.31 LTS went end-of-life in June 2021.
- 1.27 LTS went end-of-life in June 2019.
- Avoid the "Just upgrade!" shame
⌘⌘ Is the migration reversible?
- No!
- really?
- You'll not like to try so better assume "No!"
⌘⌘ Prerequisites
LAMP Stack ..
Linux | e.g. Ubuntu 20.04 | lsb_release -a
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Apache Apache Server | e.g. 2.4 | /usr/sbin/apache2 -v
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mariaDB | e.g. 15.1 / 10.3.25 | mysql --version
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PHP | > 7.3.19 | php --version
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⌘⌘ Backup
- mysqldump (full)
/usr/bin/mysqldump $l_login_path --quick --routines $createopt --skip-add-locks --complete-insert --opt "$db" > $today/$dbfile
- rsync of images directory
rsync -avz --no-perms --omit-dir-times $srcServer:$l_path/* $l_path
⌘⌘ Installation
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.0.tar.gz
wf@q:/var/www/mediawiki$ sudo tar xvfz /usr/local/src/mediawiki-1.35.0.tar.gz
⌘⌘ List of Extensions
Extension | name | url | purpose | since |
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Admin Links | Admin Links | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Admin Links | Admin Links is an extension to MediaWiki that defines a special page, "Special:AdminLinks", that holds links meant to be helpful for wiki administrators; it is meant to serve as a "control panel" for the functions an administrator would typically perform in a wiki. All users can view this page; however, for those with the 'adminlinks' permission (sysops/administrators, by default), a link to the page also shows up in their "Personal URLs", between "Talk" and "Preferences". | 13 May 2009 |
Diagrams | Diagrams | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Diagrams | Replaces deprecated
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GraphViz and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PlantUML extensions | 12 December 2019 |
Header Tabs | Header Tabs | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Header Tabs | The Header Tabs extension transforms top-level MediaWiki headers into tabs using the jQuery UI JavaScript library. | 20 March 2008 |
HitCounters | HitCounters | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters | HitCounters displays the view count in the page footer and the most viewed pages on a special page called Special:PopularPages. | 24 October 2014 |
ImageLink | ImageLink | https://github.com/BITPlan/ImageLink | Display Image and Link | 20 March 2008 |
MagicNoCache | MagicNoCache | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MagicNoCache | The MagicNoCache extension creates a new magic word '"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000C16-QINU`"' and disables the cache for any page in which it finds it. Thus it makes sure that specific pages never get cached as they get updated extremely frequently | 1 January 2012 |
Maps | Maps | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps | displays maps | 2009 |
Mermaid | Mermaid | https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/Mermaid | This extension provides the #mermaid parser function to support the generation of diagrams and flowcharts with the help of the mermaid script language. | 30 December 2017 |
MsUpload | MsUpload | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MsUpload | The MsUpload extension allows users to upload multiple files by drag & drop in the standard MediaWiki edit page. | 17 April 2013 |
Network | Network | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Network | Graphical display of page connections | 5 June 2020 |
PDFEmbed | PDFEmbed | https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/PDFEmbed | Display PDF content inline | |
Page Forms | Page Forms | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page Forms | allows users to add, edit and query data using forms. | 7 September 2016 |
ParserFunctions | ParserFunctions | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions | The ParserFunctions extension enhances the wikitext parser with helpful functions, mostly related to logic and string-handling. | |
Piwo | Piwo | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Piwo | Compiles and executes Python code stored in wiki pages. | 4 January 2018 |
Quiz-Extension | Quiz | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Quiz | Quiz-Sets for Training Wikis | 24 March 2007 |
Reveal-Slides | Reveal-Slides | https://github.com/PascalNoisette/mediawiki-extensions-Slides | Slideshow presentation from Wikimarkup using reveal.js | 2021 |
S5SlideShow | S5SlideShow | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:S5SlideShow | Slideshow presentation from Wikimarkup | 2009 |
Semantic Cite | Semantic Cite | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic Cite | Bibliographic References | 2015 |
Semantic MediaWiki | Semantic Mediawiki | https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic MediaWiki | Mediawiki with Semantic Annotation in Subject Predicate Object(Triple) style | 2005 |
Semantic Wikibase | Semantic Wikibase | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic Wikibase | ||
SimpleMathJax | SimpleMathJax | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleMathJax | The SimpleMathJax extension enables MathJax, a JavaScript library, for typesetting TeX formula in MediaWiki inside math environments. - Workaround if extension Math does not work | 10 September 2014 |
SparqlResultFormat | SparqlResultFormat | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SparqlResultFormat | Allows to render SPARQL query results | 7 August 2019 |
SyntaxHighlighting | SyntaxHighlight | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight | syntax highlighting of diverse languages | 3 April 2007 |
UserFunctions | UserFunctions | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserFunctions | The UserFunctions extension provides a set of dynamic parser functions that trigger on the current user | 18 December 2011 |
Variables | Variables | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables | The Variables extension allows you to define a variable on a page, use it later in that same page or included templates ... | 13 November 2011 |
Wikibase client | Wikibase Client | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase Client | ||
YouTube | YouTube | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:YouTube | Embed youtube videos | 26 October 2010 |