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This help section is being refactored for [[MediaWiki]] version 1.3. [[Wikipedia]] and other [[Wikimedia]] projects are using this new beta version since May 2004. See [[MediaWiki roadmap]] for an overview of the changes compared with version 1.2.6. To get help |
This help section is being refactored for [[MediaWiki]] version 1.3. [[Wikipedia]] and other [[Wikimedia]] projects are using this new beta version since May 2004. See [[MediaWiki roadmap]] for an overview of the changes compared with version 1.2.6. To get help about that and older versions, check the page histories, as the older-version-specific content might have been clobbered. |
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This guide often refers to the English versions of link labels and messages. For translations, see [[MediaWiki i18n]]. |
This guide often refers to the English versions of link labels and messages. For translations, see [[MediaWiki i18n]]. |
Revision as of 13:20, 22 July 2004
This help section is being refactored for MediaWiki version 1.3. Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects are using this new beta version since May 2004. See MediaWiki roadmap for an overview of the changes compared with version 1.2.6. To get help about that and older versions, check the page histories, as the older-version-specific content might have been clobbered.
This guide often refers to the English versions of link labels and messages. For translations, see MediaWiki i18n.
HELP
For the curious
For readers
Reading
Tracking changes
(important for validating pages)
- Recent changes
- Enhanced recent changes
- Related changes
- Watching pages
- Page history
- Diff
- User contributions
Accounts
(even useful for just reading)
- Logging in
- Preferences
- User styles -- Your own css/js in the monobook skin (1.3)
For editors
Editing and writing pages
- Editing overview
- Starting a new page
- Images and other uploaded files
- Special characters
- Formatting
- Edit summary
- Edit conflict
Referencing
Organizing
Saving effort
(not having to write something, or copy and paste)
Fixing mistakes and vandalism
Collaborating
- Wikimedia principles (netiquette, consensus, npov, copyrights)
- Growing Wikimedia (building the project and the community)
- Governance
- Wikimedia power structure
- Interlingual coordination (various international issues)
- Wikipedia policies
- Conflict resolution
- Conventions
Communicating
For moderators
- Help:Administration
- Documentation: Administrator's Guide
- Importing Pages ( Special:import )
For system administrators
Overview
Installation
- Documentation:Installation
- Installation (see also CVS tree installation)
- Installation FAQ
- on Linux
- on Windows
- on Mac OS X
- on FreeBSD
- Timezone adjustments
Security
- Documentation:Security
- Security Checklist
- Paranoid Permissions (system)
- Permissive Permissions (system)
- Setting user rights (inside wiki enviornment)
Configuration
- Documentation:Configuration
- MediaWiki User's Guide: Configuration
- Apache config
- Robots.txt -- how to avoid search engines to index the internals of your wiki
- Rewrite Rules -- how to get rid of /index.php in URLs
- PHP config
- MySQL config
Customization
- Customization
- Timezone adjustments
- MediaWiki localization -- localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
- Configuring interwiki links
- Custom skins
- More tweaks
- Configuration tips and tricks
Backing up Data
Upgrading
For MediaWiki hackers
Documentation
IRC
irc.freenode.net #mediawiki #wikipedia
Mailing lists
Special:Recentchanges has an excelent list of mailinglists
Appendix
- ISBN links
- Common stop words
- Sites using MediaWiki
- Browser issues with MediaWiki
- Page metadata
- XML export
- How to move a MediaWiki Database
- Shortcuts
See also
- Mailing lists
- MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion
- Documentation - on installation, configuration, administration, security; may not be up-to-date