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Adding HTML5 Video to MediaWiki

I've enabled three options for embedding animated video in this wiki. Option 1: PopFig video will embed the video a popup box. The video is hidden in a semantic mediawiki icon; mouseover of this icon will pop-open the video. This option makes use of a semantic mediawiki parser tag, secure html extension, and several layers of transclusion. Option 2: mediaplayer video will embed an inline video using the <mediaplayer> tag. The option doesn't require anything but a stand-alone extension. Option 3: Widget:Html5media makes use of of an Html5 widget. This option is good for very small animations, but does has a fixed size so the portion of a larger videos that extends beyond ~200 pixels will be hidden.

Option 1: PopFig

^{SEE POPUP}{{#info: SI video1 }}

 
{{PopFig|[[File:Dot.png]]|<html>

<video src="http://bradleymonk.com/media2/EXAMPLE.mov" controls></video> <br> 

<div style='color:white; width:400px'>This is an example of a movie caption. The text will automatically wrap</div>

</html>||<big>SI video1 </big>}}

Option 2: mediaplayer

<mediaplayer image='http://bradleymonk.com/media2/EXAMPLE.png' width='500' height='300'>http://bradleymonk.com/media2/EXAMPLE.mov</mediaplayer>

 
<mediaplayer image='http://bradleymonk.com/media2/EXAMPLE.png' width='500' height='300'>http://bradleymonk.com/media2/EXAMPLE.mov</mediaplayer> 

If the video is uploaded using the native wiki upload link in the sidebar, this option can be employed simply by pasting the uploaded video file name between the <mediaplayer> </mediaplayer> tags like so:

 
<mediaplayer image='http://www.bradleymonk.com/w/images/8/82/RenderTorus.jpg' width='500' height='300'>File:RenderTorus.mp4</mediaplayer>

<mediaplayer image='http://www.bradleymonk.com/w/images/8/82/RenderTorus.jpg' width='500' height='300'>File:RenderTorus.mp4</mediaplayer>

Option 3: Widget:Html5media

Embeded Version

{{#widget:Html5media |url=http://bradleymonk.com/media2/DIFFUSE.mp4 |width=200 |height=200 }}

{{#widget:Html5media
|url=http://bradleymonk.com/media2/DIFFUSE.mp4
|width=200
|height=200
}}

Popup Version

Hover mouse over icon to open: {{#info: {{#widget:Html5media|url=http://bradleymonk.com/media2/DIFFUSE.mp4%7Cwidth=200%7Cheight=200}} }}

{{Popup|{{#widget:Html5media
|url=http://bradleymonk.com/media2/DIFFUSE.mp4
|width=200
|height=200
}}}}

Semantic Mediawiki Popups

Semantic Mediawiki Tool Tips

The parser function #info allows to add tooltips containing additional information or warnings.

Syntax

{{#info: <text> | <icon> }}

you must include the "nowiki" tag around any equal signs if you want to use styles inside the into popup
- example: <span style<nowiki>=</nowiki>"color:red">
- result {{#info:text this is red text|warning}}
{{#info:text <span style<nowiki>="color:red">this is red text}}</nowiki>

If you want to have a large image popup, the best way to do this is using these inline styles with the span tag
- position:fixed; left:10px; top:10px; overflow:visible;
- inline text {{#info:text THIS WILL PUT THE IMAGE UP HERE text}} inline text
- Use the Popupimg template inside the Popup template to do exactly this
- example: {{#info: {{Popupimg|[[File:Nicoll2011 Fig1.png]]}} }}
- result: {{#info: }}
- example: {{Popup| {{Popupimg|[[File:Nicoll2011 Fig1.png]] }} }}
- result: {{#info: }}

Extension LinkTitles

AUTO GENERATED SITE LINKS

MediaWiki Extension Page

require_once( "$IP/extensions/LinkTitles/LinkTitles.php" );
$wgLinkTitlesSmartMode = false;         // false = case sensitive
$wgLinkTitlesMinimumTitleLength = 7;    // default is 3
$wgLinkTitlesSkipTemplates = true;      // skip any text in a {{template|text}}
$wgLinkTitlesFirstOnly = true;          // only link the first occurrence
$wgLinkTitlesBlackList = array();
$wgLinkTitlesBlackList[] = 'MediaWiki';
$wgLinkTitlesBlackList[] = 'mediaplayer';

USE THE __NOAUTOLINKS__ TAG ON A WIKI PAGE TO PREVENT LINKING ON THAT PAGE

__NOAUTOLINKS__

__NOAUTOLINKS__

Template:SlideBox

{{SlideBox|width=80%|float=left|
Header [[Content]] Is Shown
|
Body text is hidden
}}

Customize Editing Toolbar

http://bradleymonk.com/User:Bradley_Monk/common.js http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar_customization

section

{String} (optional) The name of the section in the WikiEditor. Defaults to 'main'

id

{String} (required) Unique id (ie. 'my-button')

icon

{String} (recommended) URL to the icon, should be square about 21 to 22px

label

{String} (required) Tooltip displayed when hovering button

insertBefore

{String} (optional) Wikitext to be inserted before the cursor on-click

sampleText

{String} (optional) Text inserted in place of the cursor if no text was selected

insertAfter

{String} (optional) Wikitext to be inserted after the cursor on-click

callback

{Function} (optional) Called when the button is clicked

autoSummary

{mixed} (optional) Null or an Object with the following properties:
- summary: {String} (required) Edit summary that should be used
- position: {String} (optional) 'append', 'prepend' or 'replace'
- delimiter: {String} (optional) delimiter between the (possibly) current summary and the to-be-inserted summary

Syntax Highlighting

The Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi tag displays formatted source code with the <syntaxhighlight> tag.

This extension also adds coloring according to the code language settings. Like the <pre> tags and the <poem> tags, the tags shows the coding exactly as it was typed, preserving white space.

This extension also can create line numbers.

Usage

On the wiki page, you can now use "syntaxhighlight" elements:

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
<?php
    $v = "string";    // sample initialization
?>
html text
<?
    echo $v;         // end of php code
?>
</syntaxhighlight>

shows:

<?php
    $v = "string";    // sample initialization
?>
html text
<?
    echo $v;         // end of php code
?>

Alternative <source> tag

Before rev:50696, the extension used the tag <source>. This is still supported, but <syntaxhighlight> avoids conflicts if your source code itself contains <source> (for example XML).

Parameters

lang="??": Defines what programming language the source code is using. This affects how the extension highlights the source code. See the section "Supported languages" in this page for details of supported languages.
line="GESHI_NORMAL_LINE_NUMBERS|GESHI_FANCY_LINE_NUMBERS": Type of line numbering to use. If you do not provide this parameter, then lines will not be numbered. Corresponds to enable_line_numbers the flag in GeSHi.
line: Equivalent to line="GESHI_FANCY_LINE_NUMBERS"
line start="??": Use together with the parameter "line". Define the start number of the line. If you type line start="55", it will start counting at 55, then 56,57,58... and so on. Corresponds to start_line_numbers_at method on GeSHi
highlight="??": Specifies which line is highlighted. Note that the parameter line start="??" doesn't affect how it counts the lines.
enclose="??": Specifies what container is used to enclose the source code. Takes values "pre" (default value), "div", "none". Corresponds to set_header_type method on GeSHi. Choosing "div" will cause text to wrap, which is helpful if text is extending off the edge of the screen, causing horizontal scrolling.
strict: Type the name of the parameter to enable the strict mode. Corresponds to enable_strict_mode method on GeSHi.

The effect and usage of these parameters can be consulted in GeSHi's documentation.

Since r22246, you can override the colors using MediaWiki:Geshi.css.

More Usage

When line numbering is added with line, long code lines will be wrapped. See the example below. When text is the selected language, and numbering is used, the behaviour resembles the use of pre tags with numbering and long-line wrapping.

The following example shows how to color an HTML code listing:

<syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict" line start="100" highlight="5" enclose="div">
HTML module goes here...
</syntaxhighlight>

A typical result is just:

<!--This is a comment. Comments are not displayed in the browser-->
<table align=center style="background: ivory;color:maroon;font-style:italic;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;"> 
<tr><th> Heading 1 </th><th> Heading 2 </th></tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding:10px;"> This is cell 1 text </td>
<td style="padding:10px;"> This is cell 2 text </td>
</tr>
</table>

Supported languages

These are the languages known by GeSHi that can be used in the lang parameter.

Note that installed GeSHi version (can be revealed by previewing e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="-"></syntaxhighlight>) might not be the most recent version; see bugzilla:10967 for Wikimedia sites.

The GeSHi sources for each language can be found in VCS on SourceForge. Remember to go and select the version that the MediaWiki installation uses.

Code	Language
`abap`	ABAP
`actionscript`	ActionScript
`ada`	Ada
`apache`	Apache Configuration
`applescript`	AppleScript
`asm`	Assembly
`asp`	Active Server Pages (ASP)
`autoit`	AutoIt
`bash`	Bash
`basic4gl`	Basic4GL
`bf`	Brainfuck
`blitzbasic`	Blitz BASIC
`bnf`	Backus-Naur Form
`c`	C
`c_mac`	C (Mac)
`caddcl`	AutoCAD DCL
`cadlisp`	AutoLISP
`cfdg`	CFDG
`cfm`	ColdFusion Markup Language
`cil`	Common Intermediate Language (CIL)
`cobol`	COBOL
`cpp-qt`	C++ (Qt toolkit)
`cpp`	C++
`csharp`	C#
`css`	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
`d`	D
`delphi`	Delphi
`diff`	Diff
`div`	DIV
`dos`	DOS batch file
`dot`	DOT
`eiffel`	Eiffel
`fortran`	Fortran
`freebasic`	FreeBASIC
`gambas`	Gambas
`genero`	Genero
`gettext`	GNU internationalization (i18n) library
`glsl`	OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
`gml`	Game Maker Language (GML)
`gnuplot`	gnuplot
`groovy`	Groovy
`haskell`	Haskell
`hq9plus`	HQ9+
`html4strict`	HTML
`html5`	HTML5
`idl`	Uno IDL
`ini`	INI
`inno`	Inno
`intercal`	INTERCAL
`io`	Io
`java`	Java
`java5`	Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0
`javascript`	JavaScript
`kixtart`	KiXtart
`klonec`	Klone C
`klonecpp`	Klone C++
`latex`	LaTeX
`lisp`	Lisp
`lolcode`	LOLCODE
`lotusscript`	LotusScript
`lua`	Lua

Code	Language
`m68k`	Motorola 68000 Assembler
`make`	make
`matlab`	MATLAB M
`mirc`	mIRC scripting language
`mxml`	MXML
`mpasm`	Microchip Assembler
`mysql`	MySQL
`nsis`	Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS)
`objc`	Objective-C
`ocaml-brief`	OCaml
`ocaml`	OCaml
`oobas`	OpenOffice.org Basic
`oracle8`	Oracle 8 SQL
`oracle11`	Oracle 11 SQL
`pascal`	Pascal
`per`	per
`perl`	Perl
`php-brief`	PHP
`php`	PHP
`pixelbender`	Pixel Bender
`plsql`	PL/SQL
`povray`	Persistence of Vision Raytracer
`powershell`	Windows PowerShell
`progress`	OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
`prolog`	Prolog
`providex`	ProvideX
`python`	Python
`qbasic`	QBasic/QuickBASIC
`rails`	Rails
`reg`	Windows Registry
`robots`	robots.txt
`rsplus`	R
`ruby`	Ruby
`sas`	SAS
`scala`	Scala
`scheme`	Scheme
`scilab`	Scilab
`sdlbasic`	SdlBasic
`smalltalk`	Smalltalk
`smarty`	Smarty
`sql`	SQL
`tcl`	Tcl
`teraterm`	Tera Term
`text`	Plain text
`thinbasic`	thinBasic
`tsql`	Transact-SQL
`typoscript`	TypoScript
`vala`	Vala
`vb`	Visual Basic
`vbnet`	Visual Basic .NET
`verilog`	Verilog
`vhdl`	VHDL
`vim`	Vimscript
`visualfoxpro`	Visual FoxPro
`visualprolog`	Visual Prolog
`whitespace`	Whitespace
`winbatch`	Winbatch
`xml`	XML
`xorg_conf`	Xorg.conf
`xpp`	X++
`z80`	ZiLOG Z80 Assembler

Extra features

Default Source Language

Added in rev:50693.

If the site mainly quotes the source code of a specific programming language, it would be helpful to set a default language.

To do so, add a new variable to LocalSettings.php, just after the require_once line. We set C programming language as an example:

require_once("$IP/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.php");
$wgSyntaxHighlightDefaultLang = "c";

LaTeX Math

NEW WAY

<tex>f{(x)} = {\sum \lambda \cdot \bar{y} \over \sum \lambda^{ \over 2 n} }</tex>

<tex>f{(x)} = {\sum \lambda \cdot \bar{y} \over \sum \lambda^{ \over 2 n} }</tex>

OLD WAY

<math> f(x, \mu, \sigma) = \frac{1}{\sigma \sqrt{2\pi} } e^{ -\frac{(x-\mu)^2}{2\sigma^2} } </math>

f(x,\mu ,\sigma )={\frac {1}{\sigma {\sqrt {2\pi }}}}e^{-{\frac {(x-\mu )^{2}}{2\sigma ^{2}}}}

$T e X$ and HTML

LIST OF MATH SYMBOLS IN HTML MARKUP

$T e X$ Syntax (forcing PNG)	$T e X$ Rendering	HTML Syntax	HTML Rendering
`<math>\alpha</math>`	$\alpha$	`{{math\|<VAR>α</VAR>}}`	$α$
`<math> f(x) = x^2\,</math>`	$f(x)=x^{2}\,$	`{{math\|''f''(<var>x</var>) {{=}} <var>x</var><sup>2</sup>}}`	$f (x) = x 2$
`<math>\sqrt{2}</math>`	${\sqrt {2}}$	`{{math\|{{radical\|2}}}}`	$\sqrt 2$
`<math>\sqrt{1-e^2}</math>`	${\sqrt {1-e^{2}}}$	`{{math\|{{radical\|1 − ''e''²}}}}`	$\sqrt 1 - e ²$

The codes on the left produce the symbols on the right, but the latter can also be put directly in the wikitext, except for ‘=’.

Syntax

Rendering

&alpha; &beta; &gamma; &delta; &epsilon; &zeta;
&eta; &theta; &iota; &kappa; &lambda; &mu; &nu;
&xi; &omicron; &pi; &rho; &sigma; &sigmaf;
&tau; &upsilon; &phi; &chi; &psi; &omega;
&Gamma; &Delta; &Theta; &Lambda; &Xi; &Pi;
&Sigma; &Phi; &Psi; &Omega;

α β γ δ ε ζ
η θ ι κ λ μ ν
ξ ο π ρ σ ς
τ υ φ χ ψ ω
Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π
Σ Φ Ψ Ω

&int; &sum; &prod; &radic; &minus; &plusmn; &infty;
&asymp; &prop; {{=}} &equiv; &ne; &le; &ge; 
&times; &middot; &divide; &part; &prime; &Prime;
&nabla; &permil; &deg; &there4; &Oslash; &oslash;
&isin; &notin; 
&cap; &cup; &sub; &sup; &sube; &supe;
&not; &and; &or; &exist; &forall; 
&rArr; &hArr; &rarr; &harr; &uarr; 
&alefsym; - &ndash; &mdash;

∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞
≈ ∝ = ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥
× · ÷ ∂ ′ ″
∇ ‰ ° ∴ Ø ø
∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇
¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀
⇒ ⇔ → ↔ ↑
ℵ - – —

Image Annoation

<div class="wpImageAnnotatorEnable">
<span class="wpImageAnnotatorPageName" style="display:none;">[[Sandbox]]</span>
<span class="wpImageAnnotatorFullName" style="display:none;">[[Sandbox]]</span>
<div class="wpImageAnnotatorFile">[[File:Foo.png]]</div>
<div style="display:none;"><div><div><!--IMAGE NOTES BELOW -->{{ImageNoteEnd|id=-1}}
</div>

Livelets

Livelets

To create livelets, wrap any areas of the page in the #live parser-function.

In the following example, a transclusion of the page called Template:MyVerySlowTable has been turned into a livelet:

{{#live: {{MyVerySlowTable}} }}

References and Citations

In-text references make it easy to copy the text to another page; on the other hand, they make it hard to read. References containing a lot of data, quotes or elaborate citation templates can make up a significantly larger fraction of the source than the text that will actually be visible. To avoid this, recent versions of the extension allow moving some or all of the references into the <references /> section, to the place where they will actually appear to the reader. Thus,

According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big.<ref name="miller" /> The Moon, however, is not so big.<ref name="smith" /> ==Notes== <references> <ref name="miller">E. Miller, The Sun, (New York: Academic Press, 2005), 23-5.</ref> <ref name="smith">R. Smith, "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 46 (April 1978): 44-6.</ref> </references>

will have the same output as the first example above, although the numbering and order of the references will not in general be the same.

HTML

Example

iFrame Code


<html>
<iframe src="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp" 
height="300" width="350" frameborder="1" seamless="seamless" style="float:left">
</iframe>
</html>

iFrame Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
align	left, right, top, middle, bottom	Specifies the alignment of an iframe according to surrounding elements
frameborder	1, 0	Specifies whether or not to display a border around an iframe
height	pixels	Specifies the height of an iframe
longdesc	URL	Specifies a page that contains a long description of the content of an iframe
marginheight	pixels	Specifies the top and bottom margins of the content of an iframe
marginwidth	pixels	Specifies the left and right margins of the content of an iframe
name	name	Specifies the name of an iframe
sandbox	"", allow-forms, allow-same-origin, allow-scripts, allow-top-navigation	Enables a set of extra restrictions for the content in the iframe
scrolling	yes, no, auto	Specifies whether or not to display scrollbars in an iframe
seamless	seamless	Specifies that the iframe should look like it is a part of the containing document
src	URL	Specifies the address of the document to embed in the iframe
srcdoc	HTML_code	Specifies the HTML content of the page to show in the iframe
width	pixels	Specifies the width of an iframe

Tables

wikitable

Link	Description
BioNetGen	A web-based tool for automatically generating a biochemical reaction networks from user-specified rules for biomolecular interactions.
B10NUMB3R5	(BIONUMBERS) A database of useful biological numbers.
BioInformatics Services	BioInformatics Services is a biotechnology consulting firm specializing in using computational biology to solve complex biological and data analysis problems.
cellmigrationgateway	modeling software
CellML	The CellML language is an open standard based on the XML markup language at the University of Auckland and affiliated research groups.
CompCell Bio Web	Development site for teaching modules on quantitative cell biology.
DOQCS	Quantitative Cellular Signaling (DOQCS) is a repository of models of signaling pathways.
E-Cell	A Multi-Algorithm, Multi-Timescale Simulation Software Environment.
Gfit	A program for global regression analysis of experimental data.
Kitware	Professional Visualization Solutions, Tools and Support.
MCell	General Monte Carlo Simulator of Cellular Microphysiology.
Minimotif Miner	Application to search for short sequence motifs in Proteins.

Upgrading MediaWiki

Step 1 - download latest stable version of MediaWiki

Step 2 - determine database credentials from dreamhost

Get Hostname (e.g.)

mysql.bradleymonk.com

Get Database name (e.g.)

bradleymonk_com

Get Database User name (e.g.)

username

Get Database User pass (e.g.)

password

Step 3 - back-up existing files and the database

Go to: mysql.example.com
Enter db user and password when prompted
click on db in left panel
click on the "Export" tab
check "Save as file"
click "Go"

Step 4 - FTP the mediawiki.tar.gz file to the /w directory

Step 5 - Unpack the tarball

Use the console to SSH into the /w directory and unpack tarball

$ssh bradleymonk.com -l username
Change to the /w directory

$tar xvzf mediawiki.tar.gz

this unpacks into a new folder: /w/mediawiki

Step 6 - Move files and rename directory

Copy files from old to new directory

LocalSettings.php
logofile.png
images (or upload) directory
extension directory
custom skins
.htaccess file

Swap-rename directories

rename old directory /w_old
move new directory out of /w_old to top level domain
rename new directory to /w

Step 7 - Run MediaWiki update script

login with SSH again:

$ssh bradleymonk.com -l username

change to the /w/maintenance directory
enter: $php update.php

If the prompt gives an error like: "you're using php version 2.x mediawiki requires version 3.x"
try entering these:

$/usr/local/php53/bin/php update.php
$/usr/local/php54/bin/php update.php

Check if the upgrade worked by going to the MediaWiki page "Special Version"

Quoting

“

SAN DIEGO -- Money -- does it draw students to their future careers? The answer is no, according to statistics and students at San Diego State University.

”

{{cquote|quote goes here}}

MediaWiki Tips

To remove the arrow icon from external links, navigate to MediaWiki:Common.css and add this line of code

#content a[href ^="http://"].external {background: center right no-repeat; padding-right: 1px;}

Button Template

{{Button|TPB=.5em| Button Text }}

Button Text

Table Map

See here: Table Map

Labeled Section Transclusion

See: Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion

Step 1: Mark off sections

Mark off sections in the text using <section></> tags like this:

   
    <section begin=Hayashi_Malinow_2000_Science />

    {{Article|Hayashi Malinow|2000|Science • PDF|10731148|Driving AMPA receptors into synapses}}

    <section end=Hayashi_Malinow_2000_Science />

Note that this uses two individual markers, rather than normal XML open/close tags, which simplifies nested or overlapping sections. This allows you to insert section tags without worrying about interfering with other sections.

Step 2: Transclude the section

Call the parser function to transclude it, i.e. to transclude a section called chapter1 from a page called Articles:

   
    {{#section:Articles|Hayashi_Malinow_2000_Science}}