Monetizing MediaWiki >

Hosting ∞

• speed concerns

• robots.txt

The Engine ∞

I use MediaWiki as a weblog with MediaWiki calendar templating which I borrowed and carried forward from back before MediaWiki v1.4 (around 2004). There may be a more simple solution calendar or templating solution now, but mine is done and will continue to work well enough for me. You may have or learn some other way of presenting your information which is better for you.

Some people would prefer WordPress, and I did some research there too. Some of this knowledge will be universal enough to apply to another engine like that one.

Security ∞

See MediaWiki security

Extensions ∞

See MediaWiki extensions

• Videos > Ways to embed video in MediaWiki — embedding videos in mediawiki (youtube, google video, etc)

• TODO – Images

  • An extension to add Flickr images. Research them, and others.
• TODO – https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikEd – wysiwyg editor.

• TODO – https://www.paulgu.com/w/index.php?title=Special:Version ^[ 1 ] was http://paulgu.com/wiki/Special:Version

  • He uses some nice stuff, including syntax highlighting like I used to have..
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

• MediaWiki security — anonymous editing on talk pages only. Hack it and keep it up..

  • Not realistic, nobody seems to support something proper.

• PayPal Donation WikiMedia extension

Todo ∞

Convert MediaWiki underscore word separator URLs into dashes ∞

This is done for MediaWiki SEO.

convert _ (underscore) to - (hyphen) with rewriting or reconfiguration of MediaWiki.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100803164626/http://www.nuhit.com:80/forums/mediawiki/535-mediawiki-urls-underscore-to-dash.html

  • Does work, but only for new pages.

• https://www.askapache.com/htaccess/rewrite-underscores-hyphens-seo-url/ ^[ 2 ] was http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/rewrite-underscores-to-hyphens-for-seo-url.html doesn’t work

  • was http://www.htaccesselite.com/rewrite-urls-separated-by-underscores-to-dashes-vt175.html

templates ∞

I need to figure out which MediaWiki templates are recommended.. colours, images and direct image links, tables and more..

Then clean up all kinds of examples and make a good article on it.

misc ∞

• I messed with my accesskeys somewhere, to remove alt-o.. figure out how I did that and document it.