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Getting started in Danish

This article is in Danish and hopefully will get your started.

Good help pages

Tables

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

Proposals

• Dynamic Page Lists

Installed Mediawiki extensions documentation

Programming syntax high lighting

See the GeShi documentation on qbnz.com

Parameters

• lang: Defines the language
• line: Corresponds to enable_line_numbers method on GeSHi
• start: Corresponds to start_line_numbers_at method on GeSHi
• enclose: Corresponds to set_header_type method on GeSHi: takes values "none", "div", "pre"
• strict: Corresponds to enable_strict_mode method on GeSHi

GeSHI original documentation.

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

accesscontrol

To protect pages to a group of authors/readers Protected pages

ImageLink

Link on Images Extesion ImageLink

Cite

Proposed http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php

Usage:

Der er 22<ref>Prof. Reg Nefejls artikel [http://www.sludder.dk/RegNefejl.doc Et års længde] </ref> måneder på et år

== Referencer ==
<references/>

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

LocalSettings.php

General information about LocalSettings.php
s Installation log Wikiadmin

Importing images

cd /usr/local/www/mediawiki
php maintenance/importImages.php /usr/local/www/data/sw/icons/crystal_project/128x128/mimetypes/ PNG

See Mediawiki Import images

Categories in this Wiki

Special:Categories

Reseting a user password

Under maintanence run php changePassword.php --user=someuser --password=somepass

Pages under contruction