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The current version of MediaWiki is: {{Current MediaWiki version}}, see [[Special:Version]] for details. http://test.wikipedia.org runs version 1.4, see [http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version] for details. For one change see [[Help:Template#Multiple_inclusion_of_the_same_template_in_a_page]]
The current version of MediaWiki is: {{Current MediaWiki version}}, see [[Special:Version]] for details. http://test.wikipedia.org runs version 1.4, see [http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version] for details. For one change see [[Help:Template#Multiple_inclusion_of_the_same_template_in_a_page]]


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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
#[[Documentation: Introduction]]
#[[Documentation: Introduction]]

Revision as of 00:29, 4 September 2004

(Hindi)

This help is for the current MediaWiki version 1.3.x, the version that has run Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects since May 2004. For a comparison with the stable version 1.2.6 see the MediaWiki roadmap. For help with older versions, check the page histories.

This guide often refers to the English versions of link labels and messages. For translations, see MediaWiki i18n.

The current version of MediaWiki is: 1.41.1(News) , see Special:Version for details. http://test.wikipedia.org runs version 1.4, see [1] for details. For one change see Help:Template#Multiple_inclusion_of_the_same_template_in_a_page

For editing this page, (and other's in general) see that discussion page (Help_talk:Contents for this page) first.

Introduction

  1. Documentation: Introduction

For readers

  1. Reading
    1. Searching, Go button
    2. What links here
    3. Random page
    4. Printable version
  2. Tracking changes (important for validating pages)
    1. Recent changes
    2. Enhanced recent changes
    3. Related changes
    4. Watching pages
    5. Page history
    6. Diff
    7. User contributions
  3. Accounts (even useful for just reading)
    1. Logging in
    2. Preferences
    3. User style -- Your own css/js (1.3)

For editors

  1. Editing overview
  2. Starting a new page
    1. Page name
  3. Images and other uploaded files
    1. Image description page
  4. Special characters
    1. Turkish characters
    2. Romanian characters
    3. WikiHiero syntax — warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs)
  5. Formatting
    1. Formula
    2. Table
    3. EasyTimeline syntax
  6. Referencing
    1. Link
    2. Piped link
    3. Interwiki linking
    4. Variable
    5. URL
  7. Organizing
    1. Sections
    2. Templates
    3. Category
    4. Redirect
    5. Renaming (moving) a page
    6. Namespace
  8. Saving effort (not having to write something, or copy and paste)
    1. Automatic conversion of wikitext
    2. Using predefined text blocks in articles (subst)
    3. Editing toolbar
  9. Fixing mistakes and vandalism
    1. Reverting a page to an earlier version
  10. Communicating
    1. Edit summary
    2. Talk page
    3. Edit conflict
  11. Testing

For moderators

  1. Help:Administration
  2. Documentation: Administrator's Guide
  3. Importing Pages ( Special:import )
  4. Help:Mediawiki CSS

For system administrators

Overview

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

Installation

  1. Documentation:Installation
  2. Installation (see also CVS tree installation)
  3. Installation FAQ
  4. on Linux
  5. on Windows
  6. on Mac OS X
  7. on FreeBSD
  8. Timezone adjustments

Security

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

Configuration

  1. Documentation:Configuration
  2. Help:Configuration
  3. Apache config
  4. Robots.txt -- how to avoid search engines to index the internals of your wiki
  5. Rewrite Rules -- how to get rid of /index.php in URLs
  6. PHP config
  7. 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. More tweaks
  7. Configuration tips and tricks

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. Cache_strategy deployed by Wikimedia
  4. Wikimedia servers: an example of a multi-server configuration

Upgrading

  1. Upgrade Mediawiki

For MediaWiki hackers

Appendix

  1. 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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