I find myself, on a regular basis, deploying Mediawiki in air-gap environments that do not contain a DMZ. In other words, the users of these systems will not have access to any external websites in any way (e.g., http://www.mediawiki.org, http://www.wikipedia.com). This ultimately results in their inability to review editing and formatting documentation while making edits to the wiki.
Historically speaking I vaguely remember there being some form of prepared dump of the documentation being available through either Mediawiki¹s main page or through wikimedia.org. Unfortunately with my latest deployment I¹m not seeing that to be the case. Is there anything like this available any more, so I don¹t have to transcribe help pages manually? All I need is just basic editing documentation so users don¹t have to jump back and forth just to figure out how to display an image or add a link.
I¹m hoping I¹m just not finding the right page, but I don¹t remember it being this difficult to locate.
Either way, I appreciate any guidance anyone can provide.
Thank you,
Jason Mock
On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, at 04:53, Mock, Jason - 0993 - MITLL wrote:
I find myself, on a regular basis, deploying Mediawiki in air-gap environments that do not contain a DMZ. In other words, the users of these systems will not have access to any external websites in any way (e.g., http://www.mediawiki.org, http://www.wikipedia.com). This ultimately results in their inability to review editing and formatting documentation while making edits to the wiki.
"You can try Special:Export https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Export&addcat&ca...
And then, Special:Import on your wiki."
Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Howto_export/impo...
I¹ve tried that method, and it may have been what I did before (couple years ago or more). I¹m unfortunately in a situation where I won¹t be able to support the Scribunto plugin, which appears to be a ³not build in² dependency of many of the Help templates (as described by the follow-on to your last link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:PD_help/Copying). If just find it interesting that at minimum the user guide portions of the documentation cannot function with a standard ³of the shelf² installation of Mediawiki. I¹m assuming that with the lack of Scribuntu that my options are few.
On 8/8/14, 3:29 PM, "svetlana" svetlana@fastmail.com.au wrote:
On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, at 04:53, Mock, Jason - 0993 - MITLL wrote:
I find myself, on a regular basis, deploying Mediawiki in air-gap environments that do not contain a DMZ. In other words, the users of these systems will not have access to any external websites in any way (e.g., http://www.mediawiki.org, http://www.wikipedia.com). This ultimately results in their inability to review editing and formatting documentation while making edits to the wiki.
"You can try Special:Export https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Export&addcat&ca... Help&action=submit
And then, Special:Import on your wiki."
Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Howto_export/im port_help_pages_for_offline_wiki%3F
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