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