MediaWiki

2007-03-09T19:59:54Z

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==Navigation==
[[computing]]: [[software]]: [[content management system|content management]]: [[wiki]]: [[MediaWiki]]
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==Overview==
[[MediaWiki]] is the software used for this wiki, and seems to be the most mature (and most rapidly developing) [[wiki]] software available.
==Links==
===Reference===
* [[mwsite:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software's official web site
** [[mwsite:Documentation|Documentation]]
** [[metawikipedia:Help:Contents|User's Guide]]
*** [[metawikipedia:Help:Magic words|magic words]]
** [[mwsite:Customization|Customization]]
*** [[metawikipedia:Skins|Creating custom skins, etc.]]
** [[metawikipedia:Help:Contents|Help Index]]
* '''Editing''':
** [[metawikipedia:Help:Variable|Template Variables]]
** [http://www.mwusers.com/ MediaWiki Forums] (unofficial, but the response seems to be positive)
** Wikipedia:
*** [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax|extended image syntax]]
*** [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Gallery tag|image galleries]]
*** [[wikipedia:Help:Table|table formatting]]
* '''Administration & Customization''':
** [[mwsite:Manual:Contents|installing, running and developing]] for the MediaWiki software
** [[mwsite:Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php]]
** [[metawikipedia:Customization:Quickbar|Quickbar Customization]]
** [http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/doc/MediaWiki/ Directory of Coding Docs] at SourceForge
** [http://wise-nano.org/w/Programming_notes Programming Notes] from one developer who was doing some relatively simple modifications to MediaWiki; describes where a lot of the basic nuts and bolts are.

==Articles==
''see also Developer Docs, below''
* '''common operations'''
** [[MediaWiki installation|installation]]
** [[MediaWiki customization|customization]]
** [[upgrading MediaWiki]]
** [[backing up MediaWiki]]
** [[fighting spam posts in MediaWiki]]
** [[creating a custom Special page in MediaWiki]]
* '''works in progress'''
** [[embedding MediaWiki content in external pages]]
** [[subwikifying MediaWiki]]
** [[mirroring a MediaWiki site on a laptop]]
** [[MediaWiki customization for an outward-looking site]]
* '''outdated'''
** [[MediaWiki source code details|Code Documentation]]
*** [[Article.php (MediaWiki)|Article.php]]
*** [[Index.php (MediaWiki)|index.php]]
*** [[LocalSettings.php]]
*** [[OutputPage.php (MediaWiki)|OutputPage.php]]
*** [[Setup.php (MediaWiki)|Setup.php]]
===Related===
* [[Subwikis]]
==Wish List==
* [[RSS]]/Atom feeds for:
** Specific pages only
** Watched pages only
** Other users' contributions only (maybe the ability to select which users to include, with "[x]new users" being an option -- then you'd check everyone except yourself, and new users would automatically get added to the list)
*: ...and are there feed readers out there which can do this kind of filtering on their own, perhaps? They seem to be the exception, rather than the rule, and anyway as long as the feed itself contains Every Change To The Site, I can't use it as a source for a public aggregator page (e.g. the one at [http://sluggysquad.com SluggySquad]). Seems like filter parameters should be part of the URL, even, though I doubt that's the case.
* [[Subwikis]]
==Developer Documents==
A number of documents are included with the MediaWiki package, found in the /docs directory. They are reproduced here for easier reference, annotation, and discussion. (The actual names are all lowercase.)
*[[Deferred.doc (MediaWiki)|Deferred.doc]]
*[[Design.doc (MediaWiki)|Design.doc]]
*[[Globals.doc (MediaWiki)|Globals.doc]]
*[[Hooks.doc (MediaWiki)|Hooks.doc]]
*[[Language.doc (MediaWiki)|Language.doc]]
*[[LinkCache.doc (MediaWiki)|LinkCache.doc]]
*[[MemCached.doc (MediaWiki)|MemCached.doc]]
*[[Schema.doc (MediaWiki)|Schema.doc]]
*[[Skin.doc (MediaWiki)|Skin.doc]]
*[[Title.doc (MediaWiki)|Title.doc]]
*[[User.doc (MediaWiki)|User.doc]]

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