Testiwiki:Technical documentation

This page contains all the technical documentation related to this Mediawiki environment.

Technical background and installation requirements

Versions:

• MediaWiki: 1.9.3
• PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
• MySQL: 5.0.27

Requirements:

• XML / Latin-UTF-8 conversion support (php-xml?)
• PHP memory limit 8M -> 20M
• GNU diff3
• GD graphics library (php-gd)

Upcoming/Future extensions

• Graphical editor
• Distribution database
• Analytica <-> Wiki converter

Extensions and add-ons

News

News extension allows dynamic page-listing functions.

Files: (/extensions/News/)

• install.settings
• News.php
• NewsRenderer.php

More detailed information about News extension can be found from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News

Cite

Cite extension is used for making references and footnotes

Files: (/extensions/)

• Cite.i18n.php
• Cite.php

More detailed information can be found from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php

Input-box

Input-box extension is used for create article -box.

Files: (/extensions/)

• create.php
• inputbox.php

More detailed information can be found from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox.

Imagemap

Imagemap extension is used for creating imagemaps.

Files: (/extensions/ImageMap/)

• desc-20.png
• desc.svg
• Foo.jpg
• ImageMap.i18n.php
• ImageMap.php
• ImageMap_body.php

More detailed information about ImageMap extension available from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap

Additional buttons

All extra buttons require additions to Monobook.js

Table

Table -button is used to create tables. Icon available:

New Discussion

Discussion -button is used to create new discussion. Button implements discussion -template. Icon available:

Attack

Attack -button is used to create attacking argumentations. Button implements attack -template. Icon available:

Defend

Defend -button is used to create defending argumentations. Button implements defend -template. Icon available:

Comment

Comment -button is used to create comments in argumentations. Button uses comment -template. Icon available:

Variable

Variable -button creates automatically variable structures. Icon available:

Link to discussion

Link to discussion -button creates link to discussion to the related discussion page. Button uses disclink -template. Icon available:

Modifications

Supported filetypes

File	Type
ana	Analytica
ppt	Microsoft PowerPoint
pps	Powerpoint Show
xls	Microsoft Excel
pdf	Adobe
doc	Microsoft Word
tif	Tagged Image File -picture
png	Portable Network Graphics -picture
gif	Graphics Interchange Format -picture
jpg & jpeg	Joint Photographic Experts Group -picture
ogg	Audio -file

Changes made to LocalSettings.php

Font changed

Font is changed to Arial Unicode Ms due to problems with Internet Explorer and arrows used in argumentation. Changes made to Monobook.css -file.

Templates

Discussion

This template is implemented when user creates discussions using Add discussion -button. Template contains basic structure of a discussion/argumentation model.

Parameters

1. {{{Dispute}}} is topic of discussion
   
2. {{{Outcome}}} is outcome of discussion
   
3. {{{Argumentation}}} contains argumentation supporting/attacking/commenting the dispute

Attack

This template is implemented when user creates attacking argumentation using Attack -button. Template contains attack argumentation structure and parameters for user to add.

Parameters

1. {{{1}}} is number of statement
2. {{{2}}} is content of statement
3. {{{3}}} is name of argumentor

Defend

This template is implemented when user creates defending argumentation using Defend -button. Template contains defend argumentation structure and parameters which are set by user.

Parameters

1. {{{1}}} is number of statement
2. {{{2}}} is content of statement
3. {{{3}}} is name of argumentor

Comment

This template is implemented when user creates comment using Comment -button. Template contains comment argumentation structure and parameters which are set by user.

Parameters

1. {{{1}}} is number of statement
2. {{{2}}} is content of statement
3. {{{3}}} is name of argumentor

Disclink

This template is implemented when user creates a link to a discussion using Link to discussion -button. Template generates a link to the discussion page.

Parameters

1. {{{1}}} is topic of discussion

Prettytable

This style-template is used in tables to make them look a little better. Template is copied from Wikipedia.