Mediawiki: A User's Guide
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute What is a Wiki? Openly editable websites Anyone can edit (almost) any page Simplified syntax for editing User actions are logged and reversible
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute What is MediaWiki? FOSS PHP/MySQL implementation of a wiki Used on all WikiMedia websites
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Benefits of MediaWiki GNU General Public License Can be freely distributed and modified Allows authors to retain attribution Remains non-proprietary Increases sense of shared ownership
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Implementations of MediaWiki Wikipedia Wiktionary Wikiquote Wikibooks Wikisource Wikispecies Wikinews Wikiversity Citizendium docs.cosi com/wiki
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Features Main Functionality Create, Update, Media, Disambiguation Pages, Redirects, Citation/References, User Preferences, "Special Pages" Quality control Version, Watchlist, Recent Changes Patrolling Organization Namespaces, Categories, Templates Administrative User Groups, Page Protection/Moves/Deletion Extensions DPL, Highlighting, Parser Functions,...
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Main Functionality
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Creating a page
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Editing a Wiki
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Media
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Disambiguation Pages
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Redirects
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Citation and References
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Preferences
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Preferences
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Preferences
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute "Special Pages" All pages Categories Disambiguation pages Export pages File list, path Gallery of new files List of blocked IP addresses and usernames, redirects Logs Long, Short pages Most linked to categories, files, pages, templates New, Oldest, Orphaned, Popular pages Pages with the fewest revisions, most categories, most revisions Protected pages, titles Random page, redirect Short pages Uncategorized categories, files, pages, templates Unused categories, files, templates User contributions User list Wanted categories, pages What links here
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Cheat Sheet
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Cheat Sheet
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Quality Control
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Versioning (History)
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Versioning (Diffs)
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Watchlists
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Recent Changes Patrolling
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Organization
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Namespaces
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Categories
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Categories
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Categories
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Templates
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Templates
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Templates
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Administrative
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Groups Default Groups New Users Autoconfirmed Users Bots Administrators Bureaucrats
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Groups Popular Custom Groups (Wikimedia) Roller Backer Oversights Checkusers Stewards Developers Founders
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Groups
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Protect
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Move
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Delete
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Extensions
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Extensions DPL Dynamically parse sets of pages to create a “page list” ParserFunctions Support for conditionals and other code-like features Code Highlighting Cross-Namespace Links
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Summary Wikis Openly editable websites Features CRUD Quality Control Organization Templates, Categories, Namespaces Administration Extensions, Protection, RCP
April 2, Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Questions ‽