Daniel J. Barrett

MediaWiki (eBook, PDF)

Wikipedia and Beyond

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"e;A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation."e;-Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation "e;This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line."e;-Rob Church, a developer of MediaWikiMediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, the software that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for managing and organizing knowledge. In corporate environments, MediaWiki can transform the way teams write and collaborate.This comprehensive book covers MediaWiki's rich (and sometimes subtle) features, helping you become a wiki expert in no time. You'll learn how to:Find your way around by effective searching and browsingCreate and edit articles, categories, and user preferencesUse advanced features for authors, such as templates, dynamic lists, logical parser functions, and RSS, to organize and maintain large numbers of articlesInstall and run your own wiki, and configure its look and behaviorDevelop custom wiki features, called extensions, with the PHP programming language and MySQL databaseThis book also provides special guidance for creating successful corporate wikis. For beginners who want to create or work on collaborative, community-driven websites with this platform, MediaWiki is the essential one-stop guide."e;I was a MediaWiki newbie before reading this book. Now, many aspects of the platform that were murky before are crystal clear."e;-JP Vossen, author of O'Reilly's Bash Cookbook

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780596156541
• Artikelnr.: 53524418

Autorenporträt

Daniel J. Barrett has been immersed in Internet technology since 1985. Currently working as a software engineer, Dan has also been a heavy metal singer, Unix system administrator, university lecturer, web designer, and humorist. He is the author of O'Reilly's Linux Pocket Guide, and he is the coauthor of Linux Security Cookbook, and SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Who Should Read This Book?
Roadmap
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
Getting Started
Chapter 1: A First Look
1.1 What's MediaWiki? MediaWiki
1.2 A Typical Day on a MediaWiki Site
1.3 When to Use MediaWiki MediaWiki strengths
1.4 When Not to Use MediaWiki MediaWiki limitations
1.5 Additional Resources help
Chapter 2: Basic Use
2.1 Quick Tour of a Wiki Page
2.2 Articles articles
2.3 Editing Primer editing
2.4 Menu Reference menus menus by name
2.5 Getting Help help
Chapter 3: Your User Identity
3.1 Creating an Account creating accounts users creating
3.2 Logging In and Out logging in
3.3 User Pages user page
3.4 Signatures signatures users signatures
3.5 Watchlists watchlist
3.6 Tracking Your Contributions contributions
3.7 Preferences preferences
3.8 User CSS and JavaScript user JavaScript JavaScript user CSS cascading stylesheets cascading stylesheets per user JavaScript per user
Writing and Editing Articles
Chapter 4: Editing Articles
4.1 Getting Started with Editing editing introduction to
4.2 Creating an Article articles creating creating articles
4.3 Paragraphs and Headings paragraphs wikitext paragraphs
4.4 Typestyles and Fonts wikitext fonts wikitext typestyles typestyles fonts
4.5 Links (Briefly) links
4.6 Images and Uploaded Files uploaded files
4.7 Lists lists wikitext lists
4.8 Tables tables wikitext wikitext tables
4.9 Mathematical Formulas mathematical formulas wikitext math
4.10 Escaping Wikitext with escaping wikitext nowiki tag wikitext nowiki wikitext escaping
4.11 Conflicts conflicts
4.12 Beyond the Basics
Chapter 5: Links
5.1 Internal Links internal links
5.2 External Links external links
5.3 Interwiki Links interwiki links
5.4 Interlanguage Links interlanguage links
5.5 Graphical Links graphical links image links
image tags
5.6 File Links file links
5.7 Linking Tips links strategies
Chapter 6: Organizing Articles
6.1 Categories categories
6.2 Namespaces namespaces
6.3 Subpages subpages
6.4 Redirects redirects
6.5 Disambiguation Pages
6.6 Renaming Articles renaming articles articles renaming
6.7 Deleting Articles articles deleting deleting articles removing an article
Chapter 7: Advanced Article Construction
7.1 Maintaining a Consistent Wiki organizing articles articles organizing
7.2 Variables variables individual variable names
7.3 Templates and Transclusion templates transclusion transclusion templates templates parser functions
transclusion
7.4 Logical Parser Functions parser functions logical logical parser functions
7.5 Dynamic Page List Dynamic Page List extensions Dynamic Page List
7.6 Recipes for Refactoring refactoring techniques
Chapter 8: Special Pages
8.1 Maintenance Reports
8.2 List of Pages
8.3 Login/Sign Up logging in
8.4 Users and Rights user rights special pages
8.5 Recent Changes and Logs recent changes logs
8.6 Media Reports and Uploads uploaded files special pages
8.7 Wiki Data and Tools
8.8 Redirects and Random Pages
8.9 High-Use Pages high use pages articles highly active
8.10 Page Tools
8.11 Other Special Pages
8.12 Special Pages Grouped by Task special pages reference, grouped by task
Running and Administering MediaWiki
Chapter 9: Installing MediaWiki
9.1 Before You Begin
9.2 Installing the Prerequisites
9.3 Installing MediaWiki installing MediaWiki MediaWiki installing
9.4 Important Optional Features installing MediaWiki optional features
9.5 A Tour of MediaWiki's Files source code list of files files in MediaWiki source code directories in MediaWiki source code
9.6 Maintaining the Code source code maintenance
Chapter 10: Practical Wiki Design
10.1 Adopting MediaWiki MediaWiki limitations
10.2 Planning installing MediaWiki planning
10.3 Establishing Standards standards
10.4 Governance governance who's in charge ownership of content
10.5 Integrating with Other Websites
Chapter 11: Configuring MediaWiki: An Overview
11.1 Administrative Roles
11.2 Advanced Page Constructs
11.3 Special Pages for Sysops and Bureaucrats special pages restricted
11.4 System Messages system messages
11.5 Cascading Stylesheets cascading stylesheets
11.6 JavaScript JavaScript programming JavaScript system-wide
11.7 Configuration Settings configuration settings settings by name, wg... global variables PHP global variables
11.8 Extensions extensions
11.9 Skinning skins
11.10 SQL Programming SQL programming database SQL
11.11 Maintenance Scripts maintenance scripts
Chapter 12: Controlling Wiki Features
12.1 Users users configuring
12.2 User Rights and Permissions user rights access control user rights
12.3 Article Content articles configuration settings
12.4 Configuring the Editing of Articles edit page configuring
12.5 Maintaining Articles
12.6 Configuring Namespaces namespaces configuring
12.7 File Uploads uploaded files configuring
12.8 Search search configuring
12.9 Special Page List special pages list of all reordering
12.10 Database Configuration database configuration
12.11 Email Configuration
12.12 JavaScript Configuration JavaScript configuring
12.13 Logging and Debugging logging debugging
Chapter 13: Changing Appearances
13.1 The Basics
13.2 Menus menus configuring
13.3 Search Box search box configuring
13.4 Tables of Contents table of contents configuring
13.5 External Link Appearance external links configuring external links icon
13.6 Page Credits articles credits page credits credits article authors
13.7 Overall Look and Feel
13.8 International Support international support language configuring
Chapter 14: Installing Extensions
14.1 Obtaining Extensions extensions finding
14.2 Installing an Extension extensions installing
14.3 Recommended Extensions extensions recommended
Chapter 15: Creating Extensions
15.1 Overview of Extension Types
15.2 Creating a Variable extensions creating variables variables creating
15.3 Creating a Parser Function extensions creating parser functions parser functions creating
15.4 Creating a Tag Extension extensions creating tag extensions tags creating extensions Hello World tag
15.5 Behavior Changes behavior changes extensions creating behavior changes
15.6 Creating a Special Page special pages creating extensions creating special pages
15.7 Useful Tasks for Extension Writers
15.8 Creating a Skin extensions creating skins skins creating
15.9 Publishing an Extension extensions publishing
15.10 Other Extension Topics
15.11 Finding a MediaWiki Programmer extensions hiring a programmer
Chapter 16: Wiki Administration
16.1 Maintenance Scripts maintenance scripts scripts by name scripts maintenance scripts
16.2 Backups backups
16.3 Upgrades MediaWiki upgrading upgrading MediaWiki
16.4 Read-Only Wiki read-only wiki write-protected wiki
16.5 Performance and Scaling MediaWiki performance MediaWiki scaling
16.6 Security security MediaWiki security
16.7 Vandalism Vandalism spam
16.8 Common Maintenance Tasks
16.9 For More Information
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