MediaWiki:Notes

Before Upgrade

LocalSettings.php

Secure settings file

cd /var/www/vhosts/wikilab.mediclab.be/httpdocs/mediawiki
rm LocalSettings.php.bck
cp  LocalSettings.php  LocalSettings.php.bck

After Upgrade

LocalSettings.php

Replace settings file

cd /var/www/vhosts/wikilab.mediclab.be/httpdocs/mediawiki
mv LocalSettings.php  LocalSettings.php.orig
cp  LocalSettings.php.bck  LocalSettings.php

Code changes

CategoryViewer.php

Modify addPage to use sortkey as display title in catergory pages. Maybe not necessary in future releases when 144411 is implemented.

   /**
        * Add a miscellaneous page
        * @param $title
        * @param $sortkey
        * @param $pageLength
        * @param $isRedirect bool
        */
       function addPage( $title, $sortkey, $pageLength, $isRedirect = false ) {
               global $wgContLang;
               if ( $sortkey != NULL) {
                       $sortkeys = explode("\n", $sortkey);
                       $link = Linker::link ( $title, $sortkeys[0] );
               }
               else {
                       $link = Linker::link( $title );
               } ;
               if ( $isRedirect ) {
                       // This seems kind of pointless given 'mw-redirect' class,
                       // but keeping for back-compatibility with user css.
                       $link = '' . $link . '';
               }
               $this->articles[] = $link;

               $this->articles_start_char[] = $wgContLang->convert(
                       $this->collation->getFirstLetter( $sortkey ) );
       }