Mediawiki
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[edit] 1 Mediawiki: Using, installing, extending: Some examples
[edit] 1.1 Some extensions used on this wiki
- Collections example - shows how collections work (to get pdf)
- Multilanguage Test - shows how multilanguage features work
- Comments example
- Mediawiki SimplePie usage and Mediawiki SimplePie example. Why this is interesting: Mediawiki SimplePie media delivery
- Semantic Web Extension
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables provides {{CURRENTUSER}} and {{LOGO}}, to give 38.107.191.116 and /wiki_source/images/e/e4/Globe.png.
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions, e.g. to give {{#time: Y-m-d }}=2010-03-10
- Also see Special:Version.
- My mediawiki extensions.
- How to get rss/atom feeds from your mediawiki, see Mediawiki feeds
[edit] 2 Cool templates and tricks
- Making boxes
- Doing maths with semantic wiki and parser functions
- Mediawiki statistics, such as: This wiki has 997 articles on it.
- How does this work? {{#pagesize:Main Page}}
- Mediawiki templates for edit and history
[edit] 3 Tweaking mediawiki (js, css, etc, for sysops)
- How to add buttons to the page edit shortcut menu
- Access keys
- Getting newsectionlink on all pages
- Edit the left 'navigation' sidebar: Mediawiki:Sidebar
- Also see MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css.
[edit] 3.1 Tweaking mediawiki appearance via css
- Hiding the main page title (this is useful if you have a navigational template right at the top of the page, and you want the main title of the page to appear below the template)
- Mediawiki/Top left logo
- Mediawiki/Tweaking monobook css
[edit] 4 Extensions
Also see enhancements.
[edit] 5 Mediawiki admin (administrator, command-line access)
- Installing a mediawiki: About this wiki - explains how this wiki was installed. (for v 1.12)
- Here is a Mediawiki example setup, written for for oer.aptivate.org (1.14) and the Steeple wiki. (for v 1.13)
- Upgrading: Mediawiki notes on upgrading has notes on how to upgrade a mediawiki installation (currently to v.1.14, no significant updates compared to update from v 1.12 to v 1.13)
- Mediawiki add namespace
- Enable subpages in a namespace
[edit] 6 Using Mediawiki as a CMS
Currently the wiki is also running my website. Plan is to write this up, with some thoughts on using mediawiki as a cms, see Mediawiki/CMS. Bjoern 13:36, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] 7 Useful mediawiki-related things
- How to export from OpenOffice to MediaWiki
- Discuss: Mediawiki vs other platforms
- What is Nice about mediawiki.
[edit] 7.1 Wiki editing with firefox
If you are used to using unix ctrl-a and ctrl-e to go to start and end of lines (and other key bindings), and you are using firefox, you may find it useful to set the access key to ctrl-shift.
Type "about:config" into the address bar. Filter for ui.key.contentAccess, and set the value to 3. For details, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Ui.key.contentAccess
Also see Access keys
[edit] 8 Additional items
Offline wiki - take the wiki with you: Section moved to offline mediawiki.
[edit] 9 Wiki maintenance links (Administrator only)
Administrators will find these links useful:
- MediaWiki:Sidebar
- Special:Specialpages
- Special:Renameuser
- Special:Listusers
- Special:Newimages
- Special:Log/newusers
- How to lock a page
[edit] 10 Sandpit
Sandpit - traditionally to try out wiki editing
[edit] 11 Api
- Api vs. Special Export
