MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide
Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation
Seiten
2007
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-904811-59-6 (ISBN)
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-904811-59-6 (ISBN)
Covers the open-source MediaWiki wiki engine from installation and getting started through structuring your collaborative website, advanced formatting, images, multimedia, security, and managing users to backing up, restoring, and migrating your installation and creating MediWiki templates.
Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation
Key Features
Get your MediaWiki site up fast
Manage users, special pages, and more
Customize and extend your MediaWiki site
Create new, attractive MediaWiki themes
Book DescriptionRun your own MediaWiki collaborative website with this fast-paced, friendly tutorial, which is full of information and advice for creating powerful MediaWiki sites, and filling them with varied and useful collaborative content. Whether you are creating a public wiki for completely open contributions, a private wiki for collaborating within your work team or group of friends, or even a wiki for personal use, this book will show you all the essential steps.
You will see the various ways of organizing and managing content, and preventing collaboration from getting out of control. You'll learn how to incorporate images and other media into your pages, as well as becoming a wiki markup wizard to produce intricately formatted pages with tables, lists, and more. On the technical side, the book covers how to administer users, back up and restore content safely, migrate your installation to another server or database, and even make hacks to the code.
MediaWiki is the free, open-source wiki engine software that powers Wikipedia and many of the other popular wikis across the Web. Written in PHP, it possesses many features that make it the engine of choice for large collaborative wikis: flexible markup, comprehensive user management, multimedia handling, and more.What you will learn
Installing MediaWiki and getting started quickly
Using special pages and domains
Running multiple wikis from a single installation
Incorporating images, multimedia, and advanced formatting
Structuring your wiki from the start for easy navigation as it grows
Managing users and protecting pages from vandalism
Creating new MediaWiki templates
Who this book is forThis book is for competent computer users who want to run MediaWiki. They should have some knowledge of HTML and have used a wiki before. No PHP knowledge is required for most of the book, although some chapters at the end include some PHP code.
Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation
Key Features
Get your MediaWiki site up fast
Manage users, special pages, and more
Customize and extend your MediaWiki site
Create new, attractive MediaWiki themes
Book DescriptionRun your own MediaWiki collaborative website with this fast-paced, friendly tutorial, which is full of information and advice for creating powerful MediaWiki sites, and filling them with varied and useful collaborative content. Whether you are creating a public wiki for completely open contributions, a private wiki for collaborating within your work team or group of friends, or even a wiki for personal use, this book will show you all the essential steps.
You will see the various ways of organizing and managing content, and preventing collaboration from getting out of control. You'll learn how to incorporate images and other media into your pages, as well as becoming a wiki markup wizard to produce intricately formatted pages with tables, lists, and more. On the technical side, the book covers how to administer users, back up and restore content safely, migrate your installation to another server or database, and even make hacks to the code.
MediaWiki is the free, open-source wiki engine software that powers Wikipedia and many of the other popular wikis across the Web. Written in PHP, it possesses many features that make it the engine of choice for large collaborative wikis: flexible markup, comprehensive user management, multimedia handling, and more.What you will learn
Installing MediaWiki and getting started quickly
Using special pages and domains
Running multiple wikis from a single installation
Incorporating images, multimedia, and advanced formatting
Structuring your wiki from the start for easy navigation as it grows
Managing users and protecting pages from vandalism
Creating new MediaWiki templates
Who this book is forThis book is for competent computer users who want to run MediaWiki. They should have some knowledge of HTML and have used a wiki before. No PHP knowledge is required for most of the book, although some chapters at the end include some PHP code.
Mizanur Rahman from Bangladesh is a Senior Software Engineer at Relisource Technologies). He loves to work with Java, PHP and other web-based technologies and is a moderator of PHPXperts, the largest PHP user group in Bangladesh
Table of Contents
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.12.2010 |
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Verlagsort | Birmingham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Informatik ► Web / Internet ► Web Design / Usability |
ISBN-10 | 1-904811-59-0 / 1904811590 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-904811-59-6 / 9781904811596 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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