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Key References
Our content on these key MediaWiki user concepts:
MediaWiki Markup Language (How to edit & format wiki pages)
- MediaWiki Markup as it's used on this wiki
- Mediawiki Page Rename & ReDirect - move, rename, redirect and alias wiki pages; alternate & hidden headings.
- External Images
- MediaWiki Templates a.k.a. include files, macros - Recommended!
- Drag-and-drop Images to MediaWiki
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Administrator%27s_Handbook
- MediaWiki Reference Card (pdf). This reference does not include information about extensions which are installed on this wiki.
Special Wiki Management Pages
- Upload Files to wiki (graphics, images, png, jpg, pdf) See Upload file in the Tools section on the left hand margin. http://dataself.com/wiki/Special:Upload
- List Uploaded Files http://dataself.com/wiki/Special:ListFiles
- Where Used, Internal Links Report, "What Links Here" special page http://www.dataself.com/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere
- Statistics: http://www.dataself.com/wiki/Special:Statistics
- Version of wiki, extensions installed, server info, etc: http://www.datasel.com/wiki/Special:Version
- Template Control Page List of Templates in Use on this wiki
- Sidebar (Global configuration) MediaWiki:Sidebar
- All Pages in the WikiMedia: NameSpace http://www.dataself.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=8
- Recent Changes (changes in last 1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 30 days) http://www.dataself.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges (see also http://www.dataself.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions
- Report on changes more than 30 days old http://www.dataself.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions
"IP address or username:" prompt. List of User names @ http://www.dataself.com/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers
Principles of Wiki Documentation Design
Known Problems with MediaWiki & Work Arounds
"n_var_char" string not allowed (version 1.21.3)
- NOTE: The string "n_var_char" represents the one-word command spelled without the underscores.
Wiki cannot process markup containing the string "n_var_char". The string is not allowed even inside <nowiki> tags or in http://www ... strings.
MediaWiki Editors
The Wikitext and WikiEd editor extensions has been installed on this copy of MediaWiki. Wikitext is the same built-in editor used by Wikipedia. WikiEd has additional usefule features including syntax highlighting.
MediaWiki Editors and Editor Extensions
wikiEd
Activating wikiEd
The settings documented in the next section also turn on the WikiEd editor.
Changing WikiEd Settings
Settings for the WikiEd editor are saved in the wiki on the following page. The settings may be maintained using the wiki's editor.
- Click on [MediaWiki:Common.js].
- Click the Edit tab.
- Remove the "//" comment characters on the last two lines or cut and paste in the code below.
- Save.
- These settings can also be used to add new function buttons to the editor.
- The JavaScript command which activates the wikiEd editor is:
- importScriptURI('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cacycle/wikEd.js' //+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
wikiEd Documentation
Misc
New Wiki Features -- Needs, requirements, desired features.
