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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

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

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 is installed in the extensions directory

Widgets

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

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 Installation logWikiadmin

Categories in this Wiki

Special:Categories

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 ==== Gadgets that you can use ====
 See the list of [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Gadgets Gadgets]
-== Other changes to the standard Configuration ==
-Well there are some changes in LocalSetting.php ([[User:Heth|Henrik Thomsen]] 18:56, 11 February 2009 (UTC))
-<source lang="php">
-$wgStylePath        = "$wgScriptPath/skins";
-$wgStyleDirectory   = "$IP/skins";
-$wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/tekkom.png";
-$wgFileExtensions[] = 'svg';
-$wgFileExtensions[] = 'pdf';
-$wgAllowTitlesInSVG = true;
-#Slaa Caching fra naar der udvikles design paa siden
-$wgEnableParserCache = false;
-$wgEnableMWSuggest=true; # OpenSearch box
-# $wgEnableRestrict = true; #Need extension I think
-require_once("$IP/extensions/Gadgets/Gadgets.php");
-require_once("extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.php");
-require_once("$IP/extensions/UserRightsList/UserRightsList.php");
-require_once("extensions/EmbedPDF.php");
-require_once("$IP/extensions/Widgets/Widgets.php");
-$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editwidgets'] = true;
-require_once("extensions/rss.php");
-#Defining Students name space
-define("NS_STUDENTS", 100);
-define("NS_STUDENTS_TALK", 101);
-$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_STUDENTS] = "Students";
-$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_STUDENTS_TALK] = "Students_talk";
-$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_STUDENTS] = array( 'editstudents' ); #permission "edit" required to edit the  n
-amespace
-$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_STUDENTS] = true;            #subpages enabled for the namespace
-$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editstudents'] = true;      #permission "edit" granted to users in the "sys
-op" group
-$wgContentNamespaces[] = NS_STUDENTS;
-$wgAllowUserCss = true;
-$wgAllowUserJs = true; # Made WikEd work
-$wgUseSiteCss = true;
-$wgUseSiteJs = true;
-$wgCategoryMagicGallery = true;
-$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; #Restrict anonymous editing
-</source>
-Changed [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to avoid pagename in top of [[Main Page]]
-== Mediawiki extensions proposed installed ==
-=== Making MediaWiki non case-sensitive ===
-[http://obstinate.org/computing/making-mediawiki-urls-non-case-sensitive non case sensitive procedure]
-See [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_sensitivity_of_page_names wikimedia proposals]
-=== Mediawiki ===
-TitleKey extension is a case-insensitive title prefix search plugin [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleKey TitleKey Extension]
-=== <strike>Lucene Search Engine</strike>  ===
-<strike>Lucence search engine will be installed. It will make suggestions in the searchbox case insensitive. </strike>[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search <strike>Lucene-search</strike>]
-=== SphinxSearch engine  ===
-[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch SphinxSearch]&nbsp;Should be better than Lucene Search. Try it out on [http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Info:Main_Page | newworldencyclopedia]
-=== Embedded document ===
-Can apparantly embed *.pdf and *.doc files into the Wiki.
-[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Embed_Document Embed_Document]]
-I would like to find a format converter that really works pdf->wiki and doc->wiki
-=== Secure and protected category ===
-See the extension [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryPermissions CategoryPermissions]
-== Mediawiki search engine ==
-The article [http://www.searchtools.com/analysis/mediawiki-search/index-mediawiki-search-stinks.html Mediawiki search-engine stinks] tell it as it is.
-=== Short words in mediawiki searches ===
-See the hidden article on wikimedia [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Short_words_in_searches Short words in searches]
 == Information from this installation ==
 [[Special:Version]]<br/>
 [[Special:Preferences]]
+Installation log[[Wikiadmin]]
 == Categories in this Wiki ==
 [[Special:Categories]]

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