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

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.

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.