Local Settings

Some of the settings that I've changed to make the wiki work:

Embedding images from other sites

Mediawiki Commons

# InstantCommons allows wiki to use images from http://commons.wikimedia.org
$wgUseInstantCommons  = false;

Any Sites

## Allows Wiki to link dynamically to wikimedia commons
## works but turned off as not needed
#$wgAllowExternalImagesFrom = array('http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/')
$wgAllowExternalImages = True;
##$wgRawHTML = True;

Speeding up MediaWiki

## Set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable directory on the web server
## to make your wiki go slightly faster. The directory should not
## be publically accessible from the web.
#$wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";

#Keep parsed pages in a cache (objectcache table, turck, or memcached) to speed up output of the same page viewed by another user with the same options.
###$wgEnableParserCache = True;
#Allow client-side caching of pages
###$wgCachePages = True;
#This will cache static pages for non-logged-in users to reduce database traffic on public sites
###$wgUseFileCache = true; /* default: false */
###$wgFileCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";
###$wgShowIPinHeader = false;
#cache the sidebar navigation links.
###$wgEnableSidebarCache=true;
#Make the hit counter more efficient
###$wgHitcounterUpdateFreq = 50;

Short Paths

Needed to make

## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.
## For more information on customizing the URLs please see:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
#$wgScriptPath = "/wiki";
#$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
$wgArticlePath = "{$wgScriptPath}/wiki/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = true;

Enable site customisations

$wgUseSiteCss = True;
$wgUseSiteJs = True;

Customise the Wiki's look and behaviour

Maximum indent level of the table of contents

$wgMaxTocLevel = 3;

Left Menu behaviour

MediaWiki:Sidebar

$wgVectorFeatures['collapsiblenav']['global'] = false;

Default Search

#Set default searching
$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault = array(
       NS_MAIN =>           true,
       NS_TALK =>           false,
       NS_USER =>           false,
       NS_USER_TALK =>      false,
       NS_PROJECT =>        false,
       NS_PROJECT_TALK =>   false,
       NS_IMAGE =>          true,
       NS_IMAGE_TALK =>     false,
       NS_MEDIAWIKI =>      false,
       NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK => false,
       NS_TEMPLATE =>       false,
       NS_TEMPLATE_TALK =>  false,
       NS_HELP =>           false,
       NS_HELP_TALK =>      false,
       NS_CATEGORY =>       true,
       NS_CATEGORY_TALK =>  false
);