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* [[mwsite:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software's official web site
 
* [[mwsite:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software's official web site
 
** [[mwsite:Documentation|Documentation]]
 
** [[mwsite:Documentation|Documentation]]
** [[metawikipedia:Help:Contents|User's Guide]]
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** [[mwsite:Manual:Contents|installing, running and developing]] for the MediaWiki software
*** [[metawikipedia:Help:Magic words|magic words]]
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** [[metawikipedia:Help:Contents|User's Guide / Help index]]
** [[mwsite:Customization|Customization]]
 
*** [[metawikipedia:Skins|Creating custom skins, etc.]]
 
*** '''Extensions''': see [[MediaWiki extensions|Extensions]]
 
** [[metawikipedia:Help:Contents|Help Index]]
 
 
* '''Editing''':
 
* '''Editing''':
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** [[metawikipedia:Help:Magic words|magic words]]
 
** [[mwsite:Help:Variables|Help:Variables]]: built-in variables
 
** [[mwsite:Help:Variables|Help:Variables]]: built-in variables
 
*** [[metawikipedia:Help:Variable|old version on Meta]]
 
*** [[metawikipedia:Help:Variable|old version on Meta]]
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*** [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Gallery tag|image galleries]]
 
*** [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Gallery tag|image galleries]]
 
*** [[wikipedia:Help:Table|table formatting]]
 
*** [[wikipedia:Help:Table|table formatting]]
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** advanced techniques:
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*** [[metawikipedia:Help:Template|Help:Template]]
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*** [[metawikipedia:Help:Substitution|Help:Substitution]]
 
* '''Administration & Customization''':
 
* '''Administration & Customization''':
** [[mwsite:Manual:Contents|installing, running and developing]] for the MediaWiki software
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** [[mwsite:Customization|Customization]] (see also [[MediaWiki customization]])
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** [[metawikipedia:Customization:Quickbar|Quickbar Customization]]
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** [[metawikipedia:Skins|Creating custom skins, etc.]]
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** '''Extensions''': see [[MediaWiki extensions|Extensions]]
 
** [[mwsite:Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php]]
 
** [[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.
 
 
* '''Coding'''
 
* '''Coding'''
 
** [[mwsite:Manual:Variables|Manual:Variables]]: guide to writing extensions which define new variables
 
** [[mwsite:Manual:Variables|Manual:Variables]]: guide to writing extensions which define new variables
 
*** seems to be wrong in some ways; examples don't work, and examples on Meta work better (need to find page) --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 15:53, 17 September 2007 (EDT)
 
*** seems to be wrong in some ways; examples don't work, and examples on Meta work better (need to find page) --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 15:53, 17 September 2007 (EDT)
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** [http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/doc/MediaWiki/ Directory of Coding Docs] at SourceForge
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** [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.
 
* '''Tools'''
 
* '''Tools'''
 
** [http://www.chekmate.org/wiki/index.php/Word2mediawiki Word2MediaWiki]: [[VBA]] script which converts [[Microsoft Word]] documents to MediaWiki format
 
** [http://www.chekmate.org/wiki/index.php/Word2mediawiki Word2MediaWiki]: [[VBA]] script which converts [[Microsoft Word]] documents to MediaWiki format

Revision as of 13:49, 19 September 2007

Navigation

computing: software: content management: wiki: MediaWiki

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

Help

Articles

see also Developer Docs, below

Related

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.
  • 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.)