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MediaWiki is an open source wiki engine licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is used by many websites, including this one. On these help pages, you will find both a user and an administrator guide for using MediaWiki.

Introduction

  1. Introduction

For readers

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Navigating

  1. Searching, Go button
  2. What links here
  3. Random page
  4. Special pages
  5. Printable version

Tracking changes

  1. Recent changes
  2. Enhanced recent changes
  3. Related changes
  4. Watching pages
  5. Page history
  6. Diff
  7. User contributions

Accounts

  1. Logging in
  2. Preferences
  3. User style

For editors

Editing overview

Starting a new page

  1. Page name

Referencing

  1. Links
  2. Piped links
  3. Interwiki linking
  4. Variables
  5. URLs
  6. Anchors

Formatting

  1. Formulas
  2. Tables
  3. HTML in wikitext
  4. Image & File uploads
  5. Image page

Organizing

  1. Sections
  2. Templates
  3. Category
  4. Redirects
  5. Renaming (moving) a page
  6. Namespaces

Saving effort

  1. Editing shortcuts
  2. Editing toolbar

Fixing mistakes and vandalism

  1. Reverting edits
  2. Testing

Communicating

  1. Edit summary
  2. Talk page
  3. Edit conflict
  4. Minor edit

Special characters

  1. Turkish characters
  2. Romanian characters

Extensions

  1. WikiHiero syntax — warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs)
  2. EasyTimeline syntax

For system administrators


Overview

  1. Administrator's Guide
  2. MediaWiki architecture
  3. Database layout

Installation

  1. Installation
  2. CVS tree installation
  3. Installation FAQ
  4. on Linux
    1. Redhat Linux
    2. Debian Gnu/Linux
    3. Gentoo
    4. Mandrake
    5. Slackware
  5. on Mac OS X
  6. on FreeBSD
  7. on Windows
    1. Newcomers guide to installing on Windows
    2. Wiki on a stick
  8. on Sourceforge.net
  9. Timezone adjustments

Security

  1. Security
  2. Security Checklist
  3. Paranoid Permissions (system)
  4. Permissive Permissions (system)
  5. Setting user rights (inside wiki environment)

Configuration

  1. Access Restrictions
  2. Configuration
  3. Help:Configuration
  4. Help:Configuration settings index
  5. Apache config
  6. Robots.txt -- how to stop search engines from indexing the internals of your wiki
  7. Rewrite Rules -- how to get rid of /index.php in URLs
  8. PHP config
  9. MySQL config

Customization

  1. Customization
  2. Timezone adjustments
  3. MediaWiki localization -- localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
  4. Interwiki links
  5. Custom skins
  6. Custom Namespaces
  7. More tweaks
  8. Configuration tips and tricks
  9. MediaWiki Hacks and Extensions

Manage the database

  1. Backup Database
  2. Restore Database
  3. Reduce the size of the database

Performance

  1. PHP caching and optimization
  2. File cache
  3. Squid caching
  4. Cache strategy deployed by Wikimedia
  5. Wikimedia servers: an example of a multi-server configuration
  6. As your Site Grows

Upgrading

  1. Upgrade Mediawiki

For MediaWiki hackers

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Appendix

  1. Help:ISBN links
  2. Common stop words
  3. Sites using MediaWiki
  4. Browser issues with MediaWiki
  5. Page metadata
  6. XML export
  7. How to move a MediaWiki Database
  8. Shortcuts

Contact

  1. irc.freenode.net #mediawiki #wikipedia
  2. Mailing lists
  3. MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion

See also

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