Pamelaware for MediaWiki is an information card plugin.

Latest Version

The latest PamelaWare version for MediaWiki is v0.9.

Requirements

You will need the following things to use PW-MW:

• A static IP address
• An SSL Certificate
• A MediaWiki Wiki environment (must have version 1.11.0 or later)
• PHP5
• php5-mcrypt (a library that contains crypto stuff)

See the Checking PHP Prerequisites page if you aren't sure whether your site uses PHP5 or php5-mcrypt.

See the SSL Certificate Primer if you want more information on SSL Certificates

Installation

Get the plugin from the PamelaWare Servers

Directly from Subversion

1. Go to the 'extensions' subdirectory of your MediaWiki wiki cd <wiki_directory>/extensions
2. Check out the "pwmw" directory from either the trunk or from the latest stable branch:
   Dev Snapshot: svn co https://pamelaproject.com/svn/pw/pwmw/branches/RB-0.9/pwmw pwmw
   
3. For versions before MediaWiki 13.1: Recursively copy everything in the pwmw/SpecialPages subdirectory to the <wiki_directory>/includes directory. This includes SpecialPage code as well as templates, languages, and images used by this plugin.
4. For versions including and after MediaWiki 13.1: Recursively copy everything in the pwmw/SpecialPages subdirectory to the <wiki_directory>/includes directory. SpecialPage code must be copied into a new "specials" sub-directory as of version 13.1 instead of placing those files in the main "includes" directory. Everything in the templates directory should be copied to the templates subdirectory -- the languages, and images subdirectories may have to be created.
5. Add the following line to the MediaWiki "LocalSettings.php" file in the <wiki_directory> main directory:

   require_once("$IP/extensions/pwmw/pw-mw.php");
   

6. Access the PW Infocard Admin Special Page of your wiki (must use an account with admin privileges)
   1. Go to http://<wikiurl>/index.php?title=Special:PWInfocardAdmin
   2. Or you can go to the SpecialPages page and look for the PWInfocardAdmin link
7. When you're done configuring the plugin in the Admin Special Page, your plugin should be ready to go!

To add a Left Navbar Login Icon

You can optionally follow the steps below to add an Information Card Login icon to the left Navigation Toolbar:

1. Edit MediaWiki:Sidebar
   1. add the following line into the existing text in the position you prefer and save:

      ** Special:PWInfocardSubmit|infocardlogin
      

2. Edit MediaWiki:Common.css
   1. add the following 2 entries and save:

      #n-infocardlogin {
         list-style: none;
         margin-left: -20px;
         padding-bottom: 28px;
      }
      
      #n-infocardlogin a {
         background-image: url('extensions/pwmw/pwlib/images/infocard_60x42.png');
         background-position: top left;
         background-repeat: no-repeat;
         padding-left: 66px;
         padding-bottom: 30px;
         list-style: none;
         margin-left: 0;
      }
      

3. Edit MediaWiki:infocardlogin (this will be a new page)
   1. Add the following text and save:

      Click-in
      

   2. Note, you can make this text whatever you want, but you may have to change the CSS to look nice if your text is too long.