Testiwiki:Technical documentation

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

Technical background and installation requirements

Versions:

• MediaWiki: 1.10.1
• 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
zip	Compressed file format

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.