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MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org) is an open source wiki engine licensed under the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html). It is used by many websites (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki), including this one. On these help pages, you will find both a user and an administrator guide for using MediaWiki.
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Introduction
For readers
Navigating
Tracking changes
- Recent changes
- Enhanced recent changes
- Related changes
- Watching pages
- Page history
- Diff
- User contributions
Accounts
For editors
Images and other uploaded files
- Turkish characters
- Romanian characters
- WikiHiero syntax — warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs)
Formatting
Referencing
Organizing
Saving effort (not having to write something, or copy and paste)
Fixing mistakes and vandalism
Communicating
For moderators
- Help:Administration
- Documentation: Administrator's Guide
- Importing Pages ( Special:import )
- Help:Mediawiki CSS
For system administrators
Overview
Installation
- Installation - Long
- Installation
- CVS tree installation)
- Installation FAQ
- on Linux
- on Windows
- on Mac OS X
- on FreeBSD
- Timezone adjustments
Security
- Security
- Security Checklist
- Paranoid Permissions (system)
- Permissive Permissions (system)
- Setting user rights (inside wiki environment)
Configuration
- Configuration
- Help:Configuration
- Apache config
- Robots.txt -- how to stop search engines from indexing the internals of your wiki
- Rewrite Rules -- how to get rid of /index.php in URLs
- PHP config
- MySQL config
Customization
- Customization
- Timezone adjustments
- MediaWiki localization -- localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
- Interwiki links
- Custom skins
- Custom Namespaces
- More tweaks
- Configuration tips and tricks
Manage the database
Performance
- PHP caching and optimization
- File cache
- Squid caching
- Cache strategy deployed by Wikimedia
- Wikimedia servers: an example of a multi-server configuration
Upgrading
For MediaWiki hackers
- MediaWiki Development
- Documentation: Developer's Guide
- How to become a MediaWiki hacker
- Write your own MediaWiki extension
- Database layout
- http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/mwdoc/ (Source code documentation)
- Notes from the trenches (http://wise-nano.org/w/Programming_notes) (MediaWiki development from C coder's POV)
Appendix
- Help:ISBN links
- Common stop words
- Sites using MediaWiki
- Browser issues with MediaWiki
- Page metadata
- XML export
- How to move a MediaWiki Database
- Shortcuts
Contact
- irc.freenode.net #mediawiki #wikipedia
- Mailing lists
- MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion
See also
- Documentation - on installation, configuration, administration, security; may not be up-to-date
- w:Wikipedia:Glossary
- Check the privacy policy, if any, of the site you use; for Wikimedia: draft privacy policy
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