TODO

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Setup automated backups

See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki

Database backups

For example, use automysqlbackup and send the daily/weekly backups to an aws s3 bucket

Maybe follow this tutorialor similar. Also, would be nice to keep daily backups for past month, but then only weekly longer than that. Not sure how to do that, but I'm sure it's been done before.

Note: the s3 bucket needs to be secure as it contains logins

Also, need to create a backup of the LocalSettings.php configuration file.

Page / data backups

Another option is to Export or Publish the mediawiki and upload the data to a public git repo.

Ideally, the wiki could also be published to static-pages hosted by GitHub pages

That way, there will always be a read-only copy of all the pages

Looking at using https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid to translate xml dumps to html

Alternatively, https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner is basically a web-scraper so it's kinda dumb to webscrape your own server but whatever

Make sections for 1st year FAQ

Looks like someone already started: http://gt-student-wiki.org/mediawiki/index.php/First_Year_FAQ

Setup email server

Done; gmail account created

Secure secret keys

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Securing_database_passwords

Also, configure SSL

Should be fairly easy to do (using AWS route 53 rn)

Configure account creation

Require GT emails to create an account

Something similar to this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Rg8scj0rl4iqulmg