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…

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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…

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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…

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