Editing MediaWiki

The Bibliotheca Anonoma Wiki is configured quite uniquely for our needs. It uses Amazon AWS with S3 and Cloudfront for hosting, and has a load of interesting extensions.

* PHP Engine - PHP FPM
* Database - PostgreSQL

== PostgreSQL ==

PostgreSQL is used as our database for a number of reasons, from stability to compatibility with other apps to support for JSONB values. 

However, it is clearly not the most popular choice of database for Mediawiki, so we do make some workarounds to support this unique use case. These mods are noted below.

== Extensions ==

=== Infrastructure ===

* [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:AWS|Amazon AWS]] - The tools needed to support AWS S3 upload.

=== Spam ===

* [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:SpamBlacklist#Whitelist|SpamBlacklist]] - Comes with Mediawiki by default, and we've enabled it. However, it blocks a lot of good 4chan sources (naturally), so we've set up a [[Mediawiki:Spam-whitelist|whitelist]] as well.

=== Media ===

* [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:EmbedVideo|EmbedVideo]] - This embeds uploaded videos using the browser's own HTML5 <code><video></code> tag for embedding content (requires MP4 or webm). You can even embed from YouTube or NicoNico.
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We looked into whether we could use these extensions, but we couldn't get them working on our configuration.

* [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:TimedMediaHandler|TimedMediaHandler]] - Used for embedding MP4/WebM and ogg audio: but not for mp3s. The same popular extension from Mediawiki.
** <s>The SQL [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Rlt45cl0khrl8o15 just needs modification to work with PostgreSQL.]</s> Unfortunately some more significant changes in the extension are needed from there, but we might as well avoid it in that case.
* [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:HTML5video|HTML5Video]] - Very simple HTML5Video extension which embeds content such as MP3, MP4, or webm using JPlayer.
** Downside is that it doesn't allow files to be uploaded normally through Mediawiki. Nope.
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== Widgets ==

Widgets are little bits of HTML which can be used as advanced templates.

* [http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/SoundCloud SoundCloud] - Allows us to embed SoundCloud music for playing,