Table of Contents

Working with MediaWiki
2nd ed., HTML version

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2nd printing of the 2nd edition
Introduction
Chapter 1: About MediaWiki
· History of MediaWiki
· Community and support
· Wiki farms
Chapter 2: Setting up MediaWiki
· The MediaWiki environment
· Download
· Installing
· Setting the logo
· Changing the URL structure
· Updating MediaWiki
· Extensions
· Finding extensions
· Installing extensions
Chapter 3: Editing in MediaWiki
· Tabs
· Creating and editing pages
· VisualEditor
· TinyMCE
· Page history
· Page diffs
· Undoing
· Blocking and rollbacks
· Deleting revisions
· Moving pages
· Deleting pages
· Edit conflicts
Chapter 4: MediaWiki syntax
· Wikitext
· Interwiki links
· Including HTML
· Templates
· Parser and tag functions
· Variables
· Behavior switches
Chapter 5: Content organization
· Categories
· Namespaces
· Redirects
· Subpages and super-pages
· Special pages
Chapter 6: Communication
· Talk pages
· StructuredDiscussions and threaded discussions
· Handling reader comments
· Chat
· Emailing users
Chapter 7: Images and files
· Uploading
· Displaying images
· Image galleries
· Slideshows
· Displaying outside images
· Displaying PDF files
Chapter 8: User registration and management
· Registration
· User groups and permissions
· Creating user accounts
· Login integration systems
· Blocking and deleting users
Chapter 9: Browsing and searching
· Viewing the set of all pages
· Searching
· Installing another search engine
· Using an outside search engine
Chapter 10: Monitoring and notifications
· Recent changes
· Watchlist
· Echo extension
· Site notice
· Logs
· Statistics
Chapter 11: Extended MediaWiki syntax
· ParserFunctions
· Displaying code
· Displaying math
· Cite
· Header Tabs
· SimpleTooltip
Chapter 12: Modules, gadgets and widgets
· Scribunto
· Gadgets
· Widgets
Chapter 13: Display and customization
· User preferences
· Skins and mobile display
· Ads
· Some JavaScript and CSS internals
· Message pages, and modifying the interface text
· Language support
Chapter 14: Protecting content
· Handling spam
· Access control and protecting pages
· FlaggedRevs and Approved Revs
Chapter 15: MediaWiki administration
· Configuration settings
· Debugging
· Improving MediaWiki performance
· The MediaWiki cache
· The job queue
· Admin Links
· Replace Text
· Getting user IP information
· Bots and the MediaWiki API
· Search engine optimization
· Running a wiki farm
· Multi-language wikis
Chapter 16: Cargo and Semantic MediaWiki
· How Cargo works: an example
· Storing data
· Querying data
· Display formats
· Browsing data
· Semantic MediaWiki
Chapter 17: Page Forms
· Getting started
· Form definitions
· Input types
· Enabling multiple field values
· The edit with form tab
· Linking to forms
· Creating query forms
· Modifying pages automatically
Chapter 18: Other extensions
· External Data
· CategoryTree
· DynamicPageList
· UrlGetParameters
· Ratings extensions
· Page Schemas
· SocialProfile
Chapter 19: Importing and exporting
· Moving content between two MediaWiki systems
· Importing contents from another system into MediaWiki
· Exporting contents from MediaWiki to another system
· PDF export
· Offline viewing
Chapter 20: Running a successful wiki
· Public wikis
· Private wikis
· Public, organizational wikis
Chapter 21: MediaWiki development: a guide for the accidental developer
Afterword: Wiki databases
Index
Colophon
About the author

Working with MediaWiki

Yaron Koren

This site holds the entire contents of this MediaWiki reference book. You can also order this book, in printed, e-book and PDF form, at the main site, https://workingwithmediawiki.com.
Working with MediaWiki
by Yaron Koren
Published by WikiWorks Press.
Copyright © 2012-2020 by Yaron Koren, except where otherwise noted.
Chapter 16, "Cargo and Semantic MediaWiki", includes significant content from the Cargo homepage (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo), available under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
Chapter 17, "Page Forms", includes significant content from the Page Forms homepage (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms), available under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012952489
ISBN: 978-1540761149
Second edition, second printing: 2020
Ordering information for this book can be found at:
https://workingwithmediawiki.com
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Cover design by Grace Cheong (http://gracecheong.com).