MediaWiki

Template:stub Techniques: Software: MediaWiki MediaWiki is the software used for this wiki, and seems to be the most mature (and most rapidly developing) wiki software available. (The only other wiki software I know of is Moin-Moin.)

Articles

• Installation Notes
• Backing up a MediaWiki
• Subwikis
• Customization
• Developer Documents - docs

included with the installation

• Code Documentation

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 SluggySquad). Seems like filter parameters should be part of the URL, even, though I doubt that's the case.

• A way to have different visual themes or skins for different areas of

the site (may seem frivolous, but would make MediaWiki much more powerful as a tool for providing "regular" web content)

• Subwikis

Administration & Customization

• WikiMedia Help Page
  • Template Variables
  • LocalSettings.php
  • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Customization:Quickbar Quickbar

Customization]

• Wikipedia:
  • extended image syntax
  • Table Formatting
  • image galleries
• [http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/doc/MediaWiki/ Directory of Coding

Docs] at SourceForge

• 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.