Information Systems:uniKB Changelog

Overview

This page was created to note changes done to the wiki installation on smithers. It should contain any upgrade notes as well. Level 4 headings are used for dates.

Changes

July 15, 2016

• Beginning to employ the use of templates.
  • Search boxes on department category pages moved to Template:deptinputbox. This cleans up the code on those pages.

July 14, 2016

• Set $wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL in LocalSettings.php. Object caching may not have been functioning prior to this. In fact, it may still not be functioning.
• Configured Extension:CategoryTree to drill all the way down to pages on category pages.
• Important: Attempted to upgrade Mediawiki to version 1.27.0 (long-term support release). Extension:IntraACL broke due to deprecation of wfMsg function. Reverted to 1.26.3.
• Edited httpd.conf in an attempt to fix the issue with Apache randomly hanging
  • Read here for more info: https://superuser.com/questions/516030/apache-2-4-on-windows-responds-slowly-hangs-when-serving-some-dynamic-pages/627251#627251?newreg=353508746ce8452580054c959334ac00

July 08, 2016

• Non-thread-safe PHP requires use FastCGI, will be explored in the future, but reverted back to thread-safe PHP
  • Experienced slow-down after reversion (both browsers), exploring Mediawiki maintenance tasks and best practices.

July 07, 2016

• [Major Change] - Replacing PHP with non-thread-safe version. See this article.
  • Still the same version (5.6.22) and still 64-bit PHP being used (experimental).
  • Installed XCache NTS version to maintain compatibility with new PHP installation.

July 06, 2016

• Installed XCache for PHP object-caching
  • Installed to help with uniKB performance issues (freezing, lagging). Seems to have sped up the wiki significantly. No lags experienced during initial testing.

June

June 28, 2016

• Configured WikiEditor (beta) to be default editor.

June 27, 2016

• Changed Elastisearch to start up automatically.
  • Search was down after a server reboot.
• Installed DynamicPageList to test display of categories within a namespace (doesn't work).

June 23-24, 2016

• Major reorganization of content
  • Working to develop categorization scheme in preparation for company deployment.
  • Doing by example: re-categorizing all articles in namespace Information Systems.

June 22, 2016

• Installed Extension:InputBox with intent to place Create Page input field as a shortcut on department main pages.
• Installed Extension:SemanticForms to explore usability potential of Extension:SemanticMediaWiki

June 21, 2016

• Color-coded the Accounting/Finance and Information Systems namespaces using these instructions.
  • This is experimental and colors were chosen randomly.
  • Intended to ease navigation and provide context during this learning phase.
• Added Customer Service and Distribution Centre namespaces.
  • These changes are not visible to the public. They were made in advance to establish namespace IDs that need to be used for site customization purposes.
  • Set Extension:CategoryTree option to hide prefixes for cleaner appearance.

June 20, 2016

• [uniKB-DEV] - Installed BlueSpice extension on Zelda to explore better management tools
  • Scratched due to dislike of the interface overhaul. Will uninstall eventually.
• Used moveBatch.php to move all current pages into Information Systems namespace
• Restored deleted DFU page from revisions of another page with the same content.
• Performed numerous rebuildall.php and rebuildrecentchanges.php after moveBatch.php

June 17, 2016

• Working on fix for Extension:MultimediaViewer
  • Reconfigured httpd.conf (tidy up/review)
  • Created new user Apache Service under Managed Service Account
  • Set uniPHARM eLearning service (Apache) on Smithers to run as apacheservice@unipharm.local instead of LocalSystem

June 16, 2016

• Enabled email notifications in Mediawiki
  • Created wikiadmin@unipharm.com in MDaemon to test sending email from the wiki. Currently forwarding to norwinu@unipharm.com for debug purposes.
  • Added Extension:SwiftMailer (installed with PHP Composer) to replace stock UserMailer functionality.

June 15, 2016

• Tidied up LocalSettings.php
• Removed test site-wide notice

June 14, 2016

• Installed Extension:ReplaceText to rename categories.

June 13, 2016

• Implemented Semantic Mediawiki
  • Installed PHP Composer on Smithers to conveniently manage PHP extensions.
  • Installed Extension:SemanticMediaWiki using PHP Composer
• Search engine replacement
  • Installed Elasticsearch 1.7.5 search engine
  • Installed Extension:Elastica - PHP extension to bridge CirrusSearch and the Elasticsearch engine
  • Installed Extension:CirrusSearch - replaces stock Mediawiki search
  • Upgraded Java runtime environment (required by elasticsearch)
  • Set Elasticsearch to run as a service on Smithers

June 10, 2016

• Attempted to fix broken Extension:MultimediaViewer
  • Upgraded Mediawiki from 1.26.2 to 1.26.3 in attempt to fix MMV extension (not yet fixed).
  • Upgraded PHP to 5.6.22.
• Set up Mediawiki test environment on zelda using XAMPP (Wiki name: uniKB-DEV)
  • Uses MariaDB (New, community-forked version of MySQL)

June 8, 2016

• Created Accounting/Finance category
• Moved 'Main Page' to Category:Information Systems
• Prevent editing by anonymous users (LocalSettings.php). If not logged in, 'Edit' button will not be visible to you.