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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 - creating a table


In the previous section, we created some lists to separate software according to the operating system. This information may be better displayed in a table, don't you think? Let's use the syntax we just learned to change this page so that it makes use of a table. For this example, I am actually going to create a new page to display the content. The reason for this is because if you wish to visit the example site at a later date, I want to make sure all of the examples are there for you to see.

  1. 1. Our table is going to have four columns: #, Windows, Mac, and GNU-Linux. Under each column, we will have three different rows. When we add the header column with the others, it will bring our total number of cells to 16. In your wiki, open a new page to display your table on.

  2. 2. In the editing section, start your table off with the correct syntax, {|.

  3. 3. Before you enter your first column, place the wiki-pipe |, before it. Do this for each additional column header...