This manual provides comprehensive guidance for MediaWiki, a powerful collaboration platform utilized by Wikipedia and corporate environments. It covers advanced author features such as templates, dynamic lists, logical parser functions, and RSS, alongside custom feature development using PHP and MySQL. The manual details how to install, run, configure the look and behavior of a wiki, manage and organize knowledge effectively, create and edit articles, categories, and user preferences, and implement efficient searching and browsing methods. Its intended use is as a guide to MediaWiki editing and administration.
This document serves as an essential resource for understanding and utilizing the full capabilities of MediaWiki. It details maintenance procedures, troubleshooting steps, technical specifications, and safety guidelines relevant to wiki administration and content creation. By consulting this manual, users, administrators, and developers can ensure optimal performance, efficient operation, and effective management of their MediaWiki installations, facilitating robust knowledge sharing and collaboration.
"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
Author: Barrett, Daniel J.
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: MediaWiki
Pages: 00384 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2008-10-14
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596519797
Category: Computers : Internet - General
"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
Author: Barrett, Daniel J.
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: MediaWiki
Pages: 00384 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2008-10-14
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596519797
Category: Computers : Internet - General
