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:
- Wikipedia – Free encyclopedia
- Wiktionary – Dictionary and thesaurus
- Wikinews – Free content news source
- Wikiversity – Free learning tools
- Commons – Shared media repository
- Wikibooks – Free textbooks and manuals
- Wikiquote – Collection of quotations
- Wikisource – Free source documents
- Wikispecies – Directory of species
Requirements
Good familiarity with a web browser. Content editing knowledge beneficial but not required.
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