Book description
"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation."-Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
"This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line."-Rob Church, a developer of MediaWiki
MediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, the software that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for managing and organizing knowledge. In corporate environments, MediaWiki can transform the way teams write and collaborate.
This comprehensive book covers MediaWiki's rich (and sometimes subtle) features, helping you become a wiki expert in no time. You'll learn how to:
- Find your way around by effective searching and browsing
- Create and edit articles, categories, and user preferences
- Use advanced features for authors, such as templates, dynamic lists, logical parser functions, and RSS, to organize and maintain large numbers of articles
- Install and run your own wiki, and configure its look and behavior
- Develop custom wiki features, called extensions, with the PHP programming language and MySQL database
This book also provides special guidance for creating successful corporate wikis. For beginners who want to create or work on collaborative, community-driven websites with this platform, MediaWiki is the essential one-stop guide.
"I was a MediaWiki newbie before reading this book. Now, many aspects of the platform that were murky before are crystal clear."-JP Vossen, author of O'Reilly's Bash Cookbook
Table of contents
- MediaWiki
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
- I. Getting Started
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II. Writing and Editing Articles
- 4. Editing Articles
- 5. Links
- 6. Organizing Articles
- 7. Advanced Article Construction
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8. Special Pages
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Maintenance Reports
- Broken Redirects
- Dead-End Pages
- Double Redirects
- Long Pages
- Oldest Pages
- Orphaned Pages
- Pages with the Fewest Revisions
- Pages Without Language Links
- Protected Pages
- Protected Titles
- Short Pages
- Uncategorized Categories
- Uncategorized Files
- Uncategorized Pages
- Uncategorized Templates
- Unused Categories
- Unused Files
- Unused Templates
- Unwatched Pages
- Wanted Pages
- Wanted Categories
- List of Pages
- Login/Sign Up
- Users and Rights
- Recent Changes and Logs
- Media Reports and Uploads
- Wiki Data and Tools
- Redirects and Random Pages
- High-Use Pages
- Page Tools
- Other Special Pages
- Special Pages Grouped by Task
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Maintenance Reports
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III. Running and Administering MediaWiki
- 9. Installing MediaWiki
- 10. Practical Wiki Design
- 11. Configuring MediaWiki: An Overview
- 12. Controlling Wiki Features
- 13. Changing Appearances
- 14. Installing Extensions
- 15. Creating Extensions
- 16. Wiki Administration
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: MediaWiki
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2008
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596554149
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