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MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide

By : Jeff Orlof, Mizanur Rahman
Book Image

MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide

By: Jeff Orlof, Mizanur Rahman

Overview of this book

<p>MediaWiki is the free, open-source wiki engine software that powers Wikipedia and many of the other popular wikis across the Web. Written in PHP, it possesses many features that make it the engine of choice for large collaborative wikis: flexible markup, comprehensive user management, multimedia handling, and more. Whether you are creating a public wiki for open contributions, a private wiki for collaborating within your work team or group of friends, or even a wiki for personal use, this book will provide you with all the essential steps you require to achieve this.<br /><br />This book covers how to administer users, back up and restore content safely, migrate your installation to another server or database, and even make hacks to the code. From the installation process to customizing the pages, you will learn what it takes to run a well designed, secure MediaWiki site.<br /><br />Throughout the course of this book, you will see the many different ways that MediaWiki can be used on the Web. This book covers the open source MediaWiki wiki engine from installation and getting started through structuring your collaborative web site, advanced formatting, images, and multimedia to migrating your installation and creating new MediWiki templates. While you will be introduced to the many uses of a wiki, you will also be taken through step-by-step exercises that will help you master the many administrative tasks associated with running and securing your wiki. You will learn how to prevent unauthorized edits being made to content, how to prevent spam, how to back up and restore your wiki, how to configure its look and functionality to suit your needs, and much more.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
MediaWiki 1.1
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - editing text with the edit toolbar


The editing toolbar is used for quick format changes and gives you some of the most commonly used wikitext to work with. We are going to create a dummy page in the following exercise. Right after you have finished, feel free to delete this page to keep your wiki looking professional.

  1. 1. Create a new page in your wiki. I would suggest using the URL method since we will be deleting the page anyways. Name the page "Sample".

  2. 2. Click on create to open the editing page.

  3. 3. In the textbox, type Sample of Heading 2. Highlight this text and then click on the Heading 2(A) button on the edit toolbar.

  4. 4. Hit return to add an extra line break and type bold. Highlight this and click on the Bold(B) button.

  5. 5. On the next line, type italics. After highlighting this, click on the Italics(I) button.

  6. 6. Now type the word both. After you highlight this text, click on the Bold (B)button. Highlight it again and click on the Italics(I) button.

  7. 7. Now hit return again...