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	=== Sphinx - search engine ===		=== Sphinx - search engine ===
	See installation log [[Help:Installation of Sphinx search engine]]		See installation log [[Help:Installation of Sphinx search engine]]
		+	=== Input box ===
		+	See [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox Extension:Inputbox]
		+	<center>
		+	{| width="60%" style="border:1px solid black"
		+	|+Example using InputBox
		+	|
		+	<inputbox>
		+	type=search
		+	width=42
		+	buttonlabel=Go
		+	searchbuttonlabel=Search
		+	break=no
		+	</inputbox>
		+	|}
		+	</center>
	== Widgets ==		== Widgets ==

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Revision as of 20:02, 1 March 2009

MediaWiki documentaion

User help at mediawiki Help contents]

The Mediawiki Manual contents]
Wikimedias documentation on user guide for information as a user or writer.
If you need information on Installing, upgrading or configuring MediaWiki

Wikimedias help on Extensions

See Wikiadmin

Magic Words

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_word

Converting Documents to MediaWiki Markup

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Converting_documents_to_mediawiki_markup

Mediawiki extensions

Mediawiki extensions are add-on programs for Mediawiki see the list of extensions

See MediaWikis Extensions Manual

Installed Mediawiki extensions documentation

Programming syntax high lighting

See the extension GeShi on wikipedia

See te GeShi documentation on qbnz.com

Use of wikEd editor

Special:Mypage/monobook.js
Special:Gadgets

User Right List extension

Installed UserRightsList See Special:UserRightsList

Embedded PDF documents

Installed Embedded PDF

But take care embedded PDF load slowly, but a nice possebility.

Usage

<pdf>http://some.site.com/with/a/document.pdf</pdf>

or

<pdf>Your_uploaded_document.pdf</pdf>

RSS News feed reader

Installed Extension:RSS

See the page Students:News for an example of use

This Extension use magpierss which was installed in the extensions directory

Lockdown

The Lockdown extension implements a way to restrict access to specific namespaces and special pages to a given set of user groups. This provides a more fine grained security model than the one provided by the default $wgGroupPermissions and $wgNamespaceProtection settings. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown

Sphinx - search engine

See installation log Help:Installation of Sphinx search engine

Input box

See Extension:Inputbox

Example using InputBox

Widgets

Widgets extension allows adding widgets to wiki by just creating pages in Widget namespace. See Widgets Extension

List of widgets

http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Main_Page

Gadgets

The Gadgets extension provides a way for users to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other wiki users provide. Gadgets are made up of JavaScript and/or CSS snippets located on pages in the MediaWiki namespace. Each gadget is defined by a line in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition, providing a name and description for the gadget, and a list of the JS and CSS snippets that it uses

See the Gadgets Extension

Gadgets that you can use

See the list of Gadgets

Information from this installation

Special:Version
Special:Preferences
Special:Statistics#Site_statistics

Installation log Wikiadmin

Categories in this Wiki

Special:Categories