Appropedia talk:Widgets

The following are technical notes on how the widget extension was finally, successfully added to Appropedia.

• cd extensions
• svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/Widgets/REL_0_8_9/
• mv REL_0_8_9 Widgets
• chmod as per http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets#Folder_permissions
• from LocalSettings.php
  • removed all Unicef Wiki (commented out Layout) and Hexeten Wiki Widget stuff
  • added to bulk of requires
    • require_once("$IP/extensions/Widgets/Widgets.php");
    • # http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets
  • to $wgExtraNamespaces =

            274 => "Widget",   
            275 => "Widget_talk"
            );

• • to $wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array(

       NS_WIDGET         => false,
       NS_WIDGET_TALK    => false
       );

• • to $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault = array(

      NS_WIDGET           => false,
       NS_WIDGET_TALK      => false

• • with other permissions

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editwidgets']   = true;

Woo hoo! --Lonny 12:48, 20 November 2009 (UTC)Reply