Course Code
mwadm
Duration
7 hours (usually 1 day including breaks)
Requirements
Good familiarity with a web browser. Content editing knowledge beneficial but not required.
Overview
This course has been created for people who are going to use MediaWiki software as editors, users and website administrators.
This course explains how to:
- Find the information you are looking for on an existing site
- Create, edit and remove pages
- Design a structure of the page
- Analyse the best solution for the structure of the entire project
- Manage users
- Create and manage a community
Some projects using MediaWiki:
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Free encyclopedia |
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Dictionary and thesaurus |
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Free content news source |
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Free learning tools |
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Shared media repository |
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Free textbooks and manuals |
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Collection of quotations |
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Free source documents |
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Directory of species |
Course Outline
Setup
- Installation requirements and environment
- Basic initialization
- LocalSettings.php
- Extension installation requirements
Reading
- Navigation
- Searching
- Tracking changes
- Watchlist
Editing
- Editing pages
- Starting a new page
- Formatting
- Links
Advanced editing
- Images
- Tables
- Categories
- Managing files
- Moving (renaming) a page
- Redirects
- Deleting a page
- Protected pages
- Templates
- Variables
- Special pages
- External searches
- User pages
- Talk pages
- Signatures
- Subpages
- Namespaces
Wiki administration
- Sysops and permissions
The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to all wiki users.
- Protecting and unprotecting pages
- Sysop deleting and undeleting
- Patrolled edits
- Blocking users
- Range IP blocks
- Assigning permissions
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