Organizing MediaWiki content. Log In Tutorial: Organizing wiki content using MediaWiki Submitted By Richard Dias March 18, 2010 (0) Add a Comment Rate: In this article series by Jeff Orloff and Mizanur Rahman, authors of MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide , we will learn how to organize our content by creating namespaces that allow us to group pages with similar purposes together, and we learn how to use categories to group pages with similar content together.
It also teaches us about redirecting, moving, and swapping pages around so that we can ensure when a visitor comes to our site, they find the information they are looking for because the page titles will match up with page's content. Wiki Media. This is a list of guides and single-topic help files for the MediaWiki software compiled at meta.wikimedia.org.
It is progressively being moved to the www.mediawiki.org website. This help does not cover site-specific conventions, it is for the software only. Introduction MediaWiki is a free software wiki engine licensed under the GNU General Public License. Mediawiki-extensions_1.6_all.deb. If you are running Ubuntu, it is strongly suggested to use a package manager like aptitude or synaptic to download and install packages, instead of doing so manually via this website.
Mediawiki templates. Mediawiki Skins. Is a popular PHP application used to power a lot of websites including Wikipedia.
The main Mediawiki advantage implies the possibility to extend easily with the help of numerous useful plugins. So here is the list of the most significant Mediawiki extensions that will save your time and provide new facilities. User contributions. Help:Links. There are five types of links in MediaWiki: Internal links to other pages in the wikiExternal links to other websitesExternal links to internal pages in the wikiInterwiki links to other websites registered to the wiki in advanceInterlanguage links to other websites registered as other language versions of the wiki Internal links[edit | edit source] To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets.
When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already it is displayed in blue, if it does not, in red. The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized, unless otherwise set by the admins, and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text). External links[edit | edit source] External links to internal pages[edit | edit source] Wikilog. The Wikilog extension enhances MediaWiki with some common blogging features, making it a wiki-blog hybrid.
There are many names that are used to represent this concept: wikilog, wikiblog, bliki, etc. (refer to the Bliki article on Wikipedia). Wiki pages are configured to act as blogs, which are called "wikilogs". Just like blogs, each wikilog contains a number of published articles, with the most recent ones displayed on the wikilog main page in reverse chronological order.
One or more custom namespaces are configured as Wikilog namespaces; pages created directly in these namespaces become wikilogs, while subpages to these pages become wikilog articles (blog posts) and are listed automatically on that wikilog's main page. The extension provides the extra functionality for wikilogs and wikilog articles. Using Mediawiki Templates to Organize Content [Organizing Content 13] In my last series post on organizing content, I argued that traditional help authoring tools will be replaced by web platforms suitable for authoring help content.
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Web platforms have many advantages over help authoring tools. They provide everything from search engine optimization to interactivity and social media integration. Some of the more common HAT features, such as single sourcing and print, may not be as important in the future, since the long printed manual is losing popularity. I also noted that wikis are probably the most suitable web platform for help authoring. However, wikis pose challenges with content organization because they usually lack a table of contents feature, and the link-based model of connecting pages makes the navigation maze-like and confusing.
Wikimedia blog » Technology. This post is a discovery report written by Jared Flores and slightly edited for publication.
It’s part of a series of candid essays written by Google Code-in students, outlining their first steps as members of the Wikimedia technical community. You can write your own. When I initially heard of the Google Code-In (GCI) challenge, I wasn’t exactly jumping out of my seat. I was a little apprehensive, since the GCI sample tasks used languages such as Java, C++, and Ruby. While I’ve had my share of experience with the languages, I felt my abilities were too limited to compete.
The first task I took on was to design a share button for the Kiwix Android app, an offline Wikipedia reader. After a few hours of coding, the task seemed to be complete. With a newly-found confidence, I decided to continue pursuing more GCI tasks. “We believe that knowledge should be free for every human being.