The Mie Guidebook

mie-guidebook is a tweaked MediaWiki installation that powers the Mie Guidebook

Features

Technologies Used

• PHP 5.3 🐘
• MediaWiki 1.26
• MySQL 5.5
• Apache 2.2

Skins

Features two skins with custom color scheme and improved element margins

• Use MediaWiki default Vector skin for PC viewers
  • Tweaked color scheme, tabs, and margins for heading elements and list elements to match the legacy miejets skin from the Guidebook during its Mie JETs days
• Use WPtouch skin for smart phone viewers
  • Tweaked color scheme, styled image thumb elements to adjust to the width of the screen

Extensions

• ImageMap: Used to allow town names on the map from Main Page to link directly to articles
• NoTitle: Used to hide <h1> page title of certain major pages (Main Page, Life in Mie, etc)
• CharInsert: Used to allow easy input into articles of certain Unicode characters that are convenient to topic covering Japan (yen suymbol, macron vowels, nakaguro bullet character, and more)

Custom Tweaks

• Hacked a captcha into the account creation screen requiring the input of a certain Mie Prefecture city's name
• Uses clean /wiki/ URLs, see the rewrite rules

Special Thanks

I would like to send out a special thanks to all the many in the Mie community who have made contributions to the Guidebook over the years!