By Mizanur Rahman
This ebook covers the open-source MediaWiki wiki engine from deploy and getting begun via structuring your collaborative web site, complicated formatting, pictures, multimedia, safeguard, and handling clients to backing up, restoring, and migrating your install and growing new MediWiki templates. the writer, Mizanur Rahman, is a Senior software program Engineer at ReliSource applied sciences. The ebook has a fast moving, pleasant educational sort and makes use of a enjoyable instance to coach all of MediaWiki's key good points. This booklet is for useful laptop clients who are looking to run MediaWiki. they need to have a few wisdom of HTML and feature used a wiki earlier than. No Hypertext Preprocessor wisdom is needed for many of the ebook, even if a few chapters on the finish comprise a few personal home page code.
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So let's quickly summarize these features: • What links here: This is a special page where you can find the names of all the pages that link to the current page. These are also known as backlinks. This link helps us to find a related article, broken links, and double redirection of the links. • Related changes: This feature lists the recent changes made in every article that is linked from the current page, but not more than the number specified in the preferences. This is a modified version of recent changes that is limited to a specified number.
If our site is a searchable reference-type site, then adding by search method is more suitable. If we want to get new content for a page that we do not have yet, then we can find some similar contents and put the links on those similar content pages. Then enthusiast visitors can add content to it. Whichever approach we choose for our solution, we must remember a few things before creating a new page: • It is a good approach to search for the page before creating a new page. In an ideal scenario a wiki site will contain lots of pages and the prior existence of the page that you are thinking is not impossible here.
In the next chapter we will start our wiki journey by creating new pages and learning the wiki syntax. [ 30 ] Starting MediaWiki In the previous chapters we learned about MediaWiki features and its installation. Now let us get some hands-on experience on how to use MediaWiki. This chapter will give us the basic steps of writing a wiki and its syntax as well as its formatting. So let's start the journey. However, before starting let us see what we are going to learn in this chapter: • MediaWiki navigation • Creating and editing pages • Options for formatting pages • Linking between different pages A Closer Look at the MediaWiki Navigation Before writing a wiki, we need to learn about the MediaWiki navigation system.