1. Mediawiki: A User's Guide

2. April 2, 20082 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

3. April 2, 20083 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute What is MediaWiki? FOSS PHP/MySQL implementation of a wiki Used on all WikiMedia websites

4. April 2, 20084 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

5. April 2, 20085 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Implementations of MediaWiki Wikipedia Wiktionary Wikiquote Wikibooks Wikisource Wikispecies Wikinews Wikiversity Citizendium docs.cosi 800-39.com/wiki

6. April 2, 20086 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,...

7. April 2, 20087 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Main Functionality

8. April 2, 20088 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Creating a page

9. April 2, 20089 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Editing a Wiki

10. April 2, 200810 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Media

11. April 2, 200811 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Disambiguation Pages

12. April 2, 200812 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Redirects

13. April 2, 200813 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Citation and References

14. April 2, 200814 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Preferences

15. April 2, 200815 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Preferences

16. April 2, 200816 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Preferences

17. April 2, 200817 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

18. April 2, 200818 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Cheat Sheet

19. April 2, 200819 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Cheat Sheet

20. April 2, 200820 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Quality Control

21. April 2, 200821 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Versioning (History)

22. April 2, 200822 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Versioning (Diffs)

23. April 2, 200823 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Watchlists

24. April 2, 200824 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Recent Changes Patrolling

25. April 2, 200825 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Organization

26. April 2, 200826 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Namespaces

27. April 2, 200827 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Categories

28. April 2, 200828 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Categories

29. April 2, 200829 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Categories

30. April 2, 200830 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Templates

31. April 2, 200831 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Templates

32. April 2, 200832 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Templates

33. April 2, 200833 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Administrative

34. April 2, 200834 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Groups Default Groups New Users Autoconfirmed Users Bots Administrators Bureaucrats

35. April 2, 200835 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Groups Popular Custom Groups (Wikimedia) Roller Backer Oversights Checkusers Stewards Developers Founders

36. April 2, 200836 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute User Groups

37. April 2, 200837 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Protect

38. April 2, 200838 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Move

39. April 2, 200839 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Delete

40. April 2, 200840 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Extensions

41. April 2, 200841 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

42. April 2, 200842 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

43. April 2, 200843 Ryan Lewis and Zach Shepherd Clarkson Open Source Institute Questions ‽