Proposed wiki changes

Proposed wiki changes go here for planning purposes. Most changes to a wiki you just make but changes to the Wiki software itself take more planning and could break things for others.

2024

• After adding cross-linked, meta-descriptive styling to Template:boxes, I like the div style="background:#eee" way of visually calling out transcluded sections that will/should/need to be excluded from further transclusion.
  • Styling ideas, to support a dark-mode background styling: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59605805/change-to-a-relative-color-on-hover-in-modern-css
• mwe:CategoryTree mentioned previously on this page, now added & enabled. Special:CategoryTree & Search categorytree in (main) & user (incl talk) pages

2023

• Wiki upgraded to mw:1.39.
  • Rewrote the Special:Interwiki table, mainly filtering out voluminous default junk.
• Added some extensions: Special:Version#mw-version-ext. mwe:Admin Links in top bar, mwe:Confirm User Accounts (and mwe:InviteSignup, mwe:CheckUser). mwe:Nuke, mwe:Renameuser.
  • mwe:EmbedVideo, at request.
  • mwe:Gadgets, which can be enabled in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets
    • [Interwiki transcluding is disabled]
  • mwe:Previews, and dependencies, mwe:TextExtracts, mwe:PageImages.
• See also User:Mcint/WikiMaxxing

2022

March

• Minor content stuff
  • Fix CSS for bottom creative commons notice to be legible.
• Major Rack stuff
  • Noisebridge.net/wikiurls still don't work without /wiki/wikiurl which breaks lots of signage and makes links loooong.
  • Update MediaWiki further with YouTube plugin to allow video integration
• Completed
  • Moved Wiki into Channels for easier access. Added instructions on how to start editing.

2013

Change Recent Changes

A modest Proposal ... (May 2013) -> modify teh navigation template so "Recent Changes" does not automatically display the (heavily spammed) "User creation log"

Might use this link instead ->

https://main-wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&namespace=2&invert=1

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Note: currently running wikimedia revision 1.45.1 (as of 17:04 Sunday, 29 March 2026)

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2009

Here are some proposed wiki updates. Discussion welcome.

MediaWiki Update

As of 12-2-09 Noisebridge wiki is running MediaWiki: 1.11.2.

Update to the most current (1.15.1 currently). This will allow image links to work, and wgEnableMWSuggest to work.

# Don't attach NoFollow to links (default true). This should be set to false as long as the NB wiki is kept spam-free
$wgNoFollowLinks = false;

# Enable suggestions while typing in search boxes. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableMWSuggest
$wgEnableMWSuggest = true;

# improves search functionality a tiny bit http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting
$wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting = true;

# Tells Mediawiki to use ETag Headers, decreasing irrelevant page loads. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseETag YSlow says the wiki doesn't use ETags right now.
$wgUseETag = true;

# Enable the basic file cache for static pages for non-logged-in visitors.
# Warning: this might cause problems if a page is counting on knowing the current date and updating appropriately, IE a calendar page
$wgUseFileCache = true;
$wgFileCacheDirectory = "/INSTALLATION-DIRECTORY/tmp-cache";
$wgShowIPinHeader = false;

# When you make changes to this configuration file, this will make
# sure that cached pages are cleared.
$configdate = gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) );
$wgCacheEpoch = max( $wgCacheEpoch, $configdate );


# This might make for better performance, compressing html before serving, especially when using the file cache
$wgUseGzip = true;

# saves a couple database queries but fragile if $wgArticlePath is nonstandard
$wgEnableSidebarCache = true;

• Trim the Mediawiki footers

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Footer

I think we can remove "Privacy policy" and "Disclaimers". Maybe remove "About Noisebridge"

• Poem Extension

(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Poem). A useful kludge giving you the <poem></poem> tag. Inside this tag, a single carriage return behaves like a single carriage return. This makes copying and pasting many text documents into the wiki less of a bother.

• Calendar

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Calendar_(Kenyu73)

• Category Tree

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree

# Enable Category Tree extension. Note that we must enable AJAX support for this extension

$wgUseAjax = true;

require_once( "{$IP}/extensions/CategoryTree/CategoryTree.php" );

• Toggle Display

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ToggleDisplay

#require_once( 'extensions/ToggleDisplay.php' );

• Use a logo that has alpha blending.

Those white edges are a bother! Maybe take from here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Identity