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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

Other changes to the standard Configuration

Well there are some changes in LocalSetting.php [1]

Changed MediaWiki:Common.css to avoid pagename in top of Main Page

Mediawiki extensions proposed installed

Making MediaWiki non case-sensitive

non case sensitive procedure See wikimedia proposals

Mediawiki

TitleKey extension is a case-insensitive title prefix search plugin TitleKey Extension

Lucene Search Engine

~~Lucence search engine will be installed. It will make suggestions in the searchbox case insensitive.~~ ~~Lucene-search~~

SphinxSearch engine

SphinxSearch Should be better than Lucene Search. Try it out on | newworldencyclopedia

Embedded document

Can apparantly embed *.pdf and *.doc files into the Wiki. 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 CategoryPermissions

Mediawiki search engine

The article Mediawiki search-engine stinks tell it as it is.

Short words in mediawiki searches

See the hidden article on wikimedia Short words in searches

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