The Power of Collaboration
MediaWiki is the engine behind Wikipedia, the behemoth website with millions of articles written by millions of users and translated into dozens of languages. Scale, internationalization, and flexibility have turned MediaWiki into one of the most popular open source wiki applications of all times. MediaWiki is also often the first choice for organizations who wish to bring the power of transparency and collaboration into their businesses to publish technical documentation, create knowledge bases, and build intranets. Customise your Wiki
MediaWiki is arguably the most advanced, install-it-yourself, free wiki package available. A wiki is an editable web site; you can change each page's content without having to log into a content management system like WordPress or access the server via FTP or other means—you just hit the edit button. While MediaWiki is built for public web sites that anyone can update, like Wikipedia, you can customize it to limit access to certain users. Like WordPress and Firefox, MediaWiki is extendable via plug-ins that add functionality. MediaWiki is also skinnable, which means your wiki can sport a custom theme so it doesn't look just like Wikipedia. Creating a Post in WikiMedia
All posts in the wiki are located in the text version of the page. The text of every page can be edited by clicking on the edit button for the page. To preview how the page and the text (posts) inside will look like, use the Show preview button. To…
Edit MediaWiki Posts
All posts in the wiki are located in the text version of the page. The text of every page can be edited by clicking on the edit button for the page. To preview how the page and the text (posts) inside will look like, use the Show preview button. To…
Creating a Section in MediaWiki
Sections in MediaWiki are created by creating their headers. You can use the example below and replace Section, Subsection and Sub-Subsection with the names you would like to give to your sections: ==Section=====Subsection=======Sub-subsection==== Here is a preview of how this example will look after the parsing: In order to add…
Extensions in MediaWiki
The installation of most extensions in MediaWiki consists of downloading the extension’s archive and extracting it in the extensions folder within your MediaWiki installation. Then you can enable the extension by simply adding a line in the LocalSettings.php file in the following manner: include(“extensions/YourExtensionName.php”); Generally, each extension should have a…
Change the Name of a Page
In order to change the name of a page, for example the name of the Main Page, you will first need to login as Administrator. You can do this by clicking on the log in/create account link at the top right corner of your page. Then you should type in…
MediaWiki Installation
Pre-installation Steps STEP 1 Database Setup You can check our MySQL tutorial to see how to create a MySQL database and user. STEP 2 Upload Files Once you have downloaded the release you want (MediaWiki can be downloaded from here), you can upload it to your account using the File…
Manage your Content
MediaWiki has also gained a solid external user base by being open source software from the beginning. MediaWiki used to be really focused on Wikimedia sites, but efforts have been made to make it more generic and better accommodate the needs of these third-party users. For example, MediaWiki now ships with an excellent web-based installer, making the installation process much less painful than when everything had to be done via the command line and the software contained hardcoded paths for Wikipedia.