links thing:Cloning

This link wiki can be run on any MediaWiki website with the required extensions, skin and user accounts. Insure you have the following setup and then contact Jamie to get yours setup (send an email with the passwords for the two bot accounts and the URL to the blank wiki).

Required Extensions
To use these pages your wiki will need to have the following extensions installed:


 * ParserFunctions
 * Semantic MediaWiki
 * Semantic Form Inputs
 * Semantic Forms
 * Semantic Results Formats
 * Semantic Drilldown
 * Arrays
 * Variables
 * MagicNoCache
 * Widgets

Configuration
You must enable the string functions capabilities in ParserFunctions. To do this, add

$wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true;

to your LocalSettings.php file after you have added ParserFunctions.

Skin
LinkWiki could be used with any skin, however, in order to support responsive layouts and work on mobile devices the templates and forms have been constructed to work with the Filament skin. You should install this skin for your link wiki and make it the default. If you do not use this skin, the templates will require significant modification and it will be difficult to support mobile devices. In short, use Filament.

Bots
Once you have a blank wiki with the required extensions you need to provision two bot accounts.


 * Replicant
 * This account should be given bot privileges and must be given administrator privileges. This account will be used to distribute the source code of the link wiki into your new, blank wiki. It requires administrator privileges so that it can make changes in the MediaWiki namespace and setup the sidebar amongst other things. This bot will typically only connect once a day with updates.


 * Linkbot
 * This account should be given bot privileges. This account will be used to update the HTTP status, update redirects and do other housekeeping work on your wiki. This bot will check your link wiki frequently throughout the day and clean things up.

Other link wikis

 * Garrick's link wiki
 * Patrick's links