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[...]... extensive documentation on MediaWiki s features, though much of it is being migrated to MediaWiki. org mediawiki- l mailing list Wiki features are discussed in several mailing lists described at http://www mediawiki. org/wiki/Mailing_lists You can subscribe or simply read the archives The most important list for our purposes is mediawiki- l, which discusses installing and configuring MediaWiki software; its... applicable to other wikis as well MediaWiki. org The official site http://www .mediawiki. org documents the MediaWiki software, third-party extensions, wiki configuration, system administration, and much more This is also where you download MediaWiki software and updates Meta-Wiki http://meta.wikimedia.org is devoted to all the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, including MediaWiki and Wikipedia It also... employees share knowledge 3 What’s MediaWiki? MediaWiki is the world’s most popular wiki software, and with good reason It’s pretty easy to use, has powerful features, is highly configurable, scales up to millions of users, and best of all, it just plain works More than 2,000 wikis are powered by MediaWiki worldwide, including Wikipedia.* Thanks to the generosity of its creators, MediaWiki is freely available,... MediaWiki is a terrific collaborative tool It’s ideal for: Informal knowledge-sharing With its “anyone can edit anything” philosophy, MediaWiki works well for building a repository of knowledge in bits and pieces It’s far lighterweight than the big, commercial content management systems ‡ There really is an extension like this: Nuke, by Brion Vibber, http://www .mediawiki. org/wiki/Nuke When to Use MediaWiki. .. happier with a wiki that has a WYSIWYG* editor Use MediaWiki for what it does best: facilitating collaboration on a massive scale We’ll speak more about the challenges of rolling out a MediaWiki site to users in Chapter 10 Additional Resources MediaWiki is extensively documented online Most of the material is scattered throughout three sites: Wikipedia, MediaWiki. org, and Meta-Wiki, each organized in... the most successful, largely due to its powerful software, MediaWiki This book is about making MediaWiki work for you, whether you plan to read wikis, write and edit articles, or install and run your own MediaWiki site Who Should Read This Book? This book serves four audiences: Wiki readers Anyone who reads Wikipedia or other wikis running MediaWiki software Wiki authors Anyone who writes or edits... Shelman for inspiration, and all my colleagues in Capabilities Development for their many questions and requests that propelled me up the MediaWiki learning curve In the MediaWiki community, I thank the MediaWiki development team for creating a world-changing tool, readers of mediawiki- l who answered my obscure questions about internals (especially Brion), and the writers of some outstanding third-party extensions... releases, so most bugs are squashed by then The software just works When Not to Use MediaWiki MediaWiki software is terrific for a community of geographically distributed, like-minded people producing an information resource But it’s not for every purpose In particular, it’s not for: Applications that need strict access control MediaWiki is a public system at its core Although you can restrict access to individual... wikis with it Wikipedia has some features that aren’t standard in MediaWiki We’ll point them out as they come up MediaWiki is freely distributable,† so you can download, install, run, and share it without cost It’s also open source, so any competent programmer can modify its internal behavior (its source code) if desired A Typical Day on a MediaWiki Site To give you an idea of the workings of a wiki, here’s... http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail /mediawiki- l/ * WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get Additional Resources | 7 CHAPTER 2 Basic Use Wikipedia and thousands of other websites run MediaWiki, and this chapter will teach you how to get started using any of them: finding and reading articles, basic editing, and so forth Thanks to the software’s consistent operation and behavior, once you find your way around one MediaWiki site, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What’s MediaWiki? 4 A Typical Day on a MediaWiki Site 4 When to Use MediaWiki 5 When Not to Use MediaWiki 6 Additional Resources 7 2. Basic Use . requests that propelled me up the MediaWiki learning curve. In the MediaWiki community, I thank the MediaWiki development team for creating a world-changing tool, readers of mediawiki- l who answered. its powerful software, MediaWiki. This book is about making MediaWiki work for you, whether you plan to read wikis, write and edit articles, or install and run your own MediaWiki site. Who Should