Wiki tasks

To do

• issue: no notifications for mentions
  • there's an extension for that 🥹 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo
• issue: no default user page content. Could be good to at least have responsibilities and subpages listed
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Create_User_Page
• issue: login not persisted between browser restart
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug/Login_problems

Done

• migrate remaining pages from testing wiki https://pommel.uber.space/wiki/Special:AllPages done
• convert emoji shortcodes to actual emojis done 🎉
• categorize rooms done
• create templates done (well, started 😉)
  • roombox
  • warning
  • information/note
• issue: .excalidraw files can't be uploaded
  • "File extension ".excalidraw" does not match the detected MIME type of the file (application/json)."
  • disabling MIME type detection altogether is bad
  • customizations to MIME type detection can be made through extensions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MIME_type_detection
    • done
• issue: no code syntax highlighting
  • there is already computer code formatting and preformatted for basic formatting
  • the most downloaded extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight but a test installation on the test wiki broke it
  • a "drop in replacement" extension for the previous one with more up to date tech https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Highlightjs_Integration with an example on the test wiki https://pommel.uber.space/wiki/Syntax_highlighting_test
    • even this seems a bit janky, postpone til demanded.
• issue: file upload limited to 2MB
  • the PDF manuals for the DHW tank are too big to upload
  • the mediawiki default is 100MB
  • modifications to the PHP configuration directives upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in php.ini required. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMaxUploadSize
  • mount additional PHP config to docker container: https://github.com/stephenliang/mediawiki-dockerfile/issues/3
    • done
• issue: discussion/talk page discussion is tricky to do right
  • There is an extension for that! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DiscussionTools
    • There's an issue with it: creating a new discussion page leads to a 404. Could be solved if there was a way to autocreate discussion pages, like the AutoCreateCategoryPages extension above. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Yf61jpped9qatknc&topic_showPostId=yf61jppeddod1olk#flow-post-yf61jppeddod1olk
      • Looks like there is a workaround with $wgSend404Code = false https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380885 (clarify backups before installing DiscussionTools, and perhaps it 'just works' with this server config?)
      • done
        • Seems indeed to be a server config issue, clarify with Uberspace: https://github.com/Uberspace/lab/issues/1845
• issue: SEO spammers
  • We blocked them, and restricted account creation to Nextcloud SSO. It would be possible to implement a password for account creation with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha that would reduce the barrier for account creation. Discuss.
    • For now, deciding not to. The idea being that anyone who is willing and able enough to edit the wiki, should have a nextcloud account anyway. It would be possible to implement questy capture, but then when that person did get a nextcloud account, we should have to do UserMerge as well. Since there is bureaucratic/admin work required either way, simpler to keep it like this til demanded, so postpone til demanded

Upstream

• issue: no max-width set on images, can exceed box and overlap side-bars.
• issue: difficult to categorize multiple pages at once
  • cat-a-lot exists and is enabled here as a gadget, but does not work on Special:AllPages which is where it would be most needed. Also the UI is pretty snarled up
• issue: Media search is a bit tricky, require care when naming
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188236
• issue: Instant commons not enabled since it overwhelms local media
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366548
• issue: excalidraw generated SVG upload fails
  • "Found unsafe CSS in the style element of uploaded SVG file."
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394422
• issue: Mobile (MinervaNeue) does not allow editing on main page
  • by design https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ui9jkjungdin7alo (more of a gotcha)
• issue: Mobile (MinervaNeue) does not allow page creation
  • option is there, just hidden https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vi9o8iqrz2t4o2ge
• issue: Category pages need to be manually initialized
  • There is an extension to create them automatically when first referenced https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Auto_Create_Category_Pages

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User:Doug	2024