User:Dan Nessett/Technical/Notes on Refactoring CZ

Where to get svn_load_dirs.pl and configure it

You can get svn_load_dirs.ph.in here: svn_load_dirs directory

Edit the file and (around line 26) change the following line:

< my $svn = '@SVN_BINDIR@/svn';

by replacing @SVN_BINDIR@/svn by the directory in which svn resides. For Ubuntu the line would like like:

< my $svn = '/usr/bin/svn';

MW standard extensions to check

Extension Name	Notes	Status
CategoryTree	The default limit on entries displayed is 200. This is controlled by $wgCategoryTreeMaxChildren	Works
CharInsert
CheckUser	Requires db schema changes First execute php CheckUser/install.php After executing install.php, do full db backup Make sure error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE and display_errors = Off in php.ini	Works
Cite
ConfirmAccount
ConfirmEdit
EmbedVideo
ExpandTemplates
ImageMap
inputbox
Newuserlog
ParserFunctions
Renameuser
Timeline
TreeAndMenu
wikihiero

Refactoring issues

• It appears many pages (including the Request Account page) has constables@citizendium.org hardwired in. There is no magic word available to access the $wgPasswordSender global variable or any other email address. This is something that the Citizendium extension should add (i.e., a magic word for the site's configured complaint email address).

• It also appears that many Mediawiki namespace pages have http://en.citizendium.org hardwired. These should be changed to: {{SERVER}}{{SCRIPTPATH}}