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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

Time for action - adding users to a group


Well, we have protected our wiki's content from being edited by certain people. In this example, we don't want just any employee to be able to change a manual so we created a new group and gave this group the privileges needed to create and edit content. Currently, the sysop is the only person who can create and edit the content on the site. As we are busy as the administrator, we better get some people in this group so they can start getting us some content! We are going to start by creating a new user called Author and then move them into the DepartmentAuthors group.

  1. 1. Open your wiki and click on the log in/create account link in the upper right corner of the screen.

  2. 2. As we are going to create a new user, click on Create an account.

  3. 3. Fill out the Create account screen giving your user a Username of Author and then a Password and Real name.

  4. 4. Click on Create account.

  5. 5. When you create the new account, you are automatically logged in to the wiki...