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MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide

By : Jeff Orlof, Mizanur Rahman
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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

Links


There are really no dead ends on the Internet. Likewise, your wiki should have no dead ends. In order for it to be a success, you need to build relationships between your content. These relationships are built through links.

Think about Wikipedia for a moment. How many times have you landed on a page only to find yourself wanting more, and satisfying that want by clicking on a link to take you to another page, and then another. If you are like me, there are plenty of times you have wound up reading about a topic that is entirely different from the original page you were searching for.

To give your visitors the opportunity to extend their search, or even get lost in a world of information, we are going to spend some time teaching you how to create links in your content. We have seen how easy it is to create links using the edit toolbar. Using it, we can create internal links and external links. While using the toolbar is one way to create a link, knowing the correct syntax will make...