Format:
Online-Ressource (376 p)
ISBN:
9780596519797
Series Statement:
Wikipedia and Beyond
Content:
""A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation.""-Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation ""This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line.""-Rob Church, a developer of MediaWiki MediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, the software that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for managing and o
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Description based upon print version of record
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Table of Contents; Preface; Who Should Read This Book?; Roadmap; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Part I. Getting Started; Chapter 1. A First Look; What's MediaWiki?; A Typical Day on a MediaWiki Site; When to Use MediaWiki; When Not to Use MediaWiki; Additional Resources; Chapter 2. Basic Use; Quick Tour of a Wiki Page; Articles; Searching for Articles; Browsing by Categories; Namespaces; User Pages; Talk Pages; Links; History; Editing Primer; Wikitext; Edit, Preview, Comment, Save; Menu Reference; Navigation Menu
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Toolbox MenuLanguage Menu; User Options Menu; Top Tabs; Footer; Getting Help; Chapter 3. Your User Identity; Creating an Account; Logging In and Out; Remember My Login on This Computer; User Pages; User Talk Pages; User Toolbox; Signatures; Watchlists; Viewing Your Watchlist; Email Notifications; Other Watchlist Preferences; Changing Your Watchlist; Tracking Your Contributions; Preferences; User Profile Preferences; Change Password; Email Preferences; Skin Preferences; Uploaded Files Preferences; Date and Time Preferences; Editing Preferences; Recent Changes Preferences; Watchlist Preferences
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Search PreferencesMiscellaneous Preferences; User CSS and JavaScript; Part II. Writing and Editing Articles; Chapter 4. Editing Articles; Getting Started with Editing; The Edit Box; The Toolbar; Summary Comment; Previewing and Saving; Creating an Article; Paragraphs and Headings; Table of Contents; Indenting; Typestyles and Fonts; Links (Briefly); Images and Uploaded Files; Working with Uploads; Uploading a File; Embedding an Uploaded Image; Image Pages; Linking to an Uploaded File; External Images; Lists; Bulleted Lists; Numbered Lists; Definition Lists; Combining List Types; Tables
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Simple Table SyntaxTable Headings; Table Captions; Table Styles; Sortable Tables; Mathematical Formulas; Escaping Wikitext with ; Conflicts; Beyond the Basics; Chapter 5. Links; Internal Links; Links to Nonexistent Articles; Alternate Text; The Plural Trick; Links to Other Namespaces; Links to Category Pages; Links to Image Pages; Anchors; External Links; The Plain Method; The Fancy Method; The Reference Method; Supported Protocols; External Links to Yourself; Interwiki Links; Interlanguage Links; Language Menu Links; Interlanguage Links in Articles; Graphical Links
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Graphical Links with SpansGraphical Link Extensions; File Links; Linking Tips; Link Related Terms; Link More Than Once; Avoid Adjacent Links; Include a "See Also" Section; Chapter 6. Organizing Articles; Categories; Adding an Article to a Category; Listing All Members of a Category; Creating a Category; Creating a Category Page; Subcategories; Renaming a Category; Deleting a Category; Hidden Categories; Linking to a Category Page; Controlling Sorting on Category Pages; Namespaces; Talk Namespaces; Adding an Article to a Namespace; Listing All Articles in a Namespace; Creating a Namespace
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Additional Edition:
9780596156541
Additional Edition:
Print version MediaWiki
Language:
English
Keywords:
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