A MediaWiki CAS Setup with SimpleSAMLphp
Our internal wiki has long been overdue for the change to Single Sign-on. This post illustrates how I configured MediaWiki to authenticate with a central auth server using CAS.
Tag: mediawiki
How to Use Mediawiki’s API to Export Content
MediaWiki’s API has been around since before REST APIs were commonplace. So it’s a little idiosyncratic, but still useful and flexible.
MediaWiki’s Visual Editor, and Text Editing on the Web in General
Editing and formatting text on the web comprises of an interesting sub-field of web development. The web allows for different ways to turn text into HTML markup. First I'll outline some of the background of interactive text formatting on the web from my perspective, and then go into some configuration details of MediaWiki's Visual Editor that I found interesting.