This book covers the open-source MediaWiki wiki engine from
installation and getting started through structuring your
collaborative website, advanced formatting, images, multimedia,
security, and managing users to backing up, restoring, and
migrating your installation and creating new MediWiki templates.
The author, Mizanur Rahman, is a Senior Software Engineer at
ReliSource Technologies. The book has a fast-paced, friendly
tutorial style and uses a fun example to teach all of MediaWiki's
key features. Run your own MediaWiki collaborative website with
this fast-paced, friendly tutorial, which is full of information
and advice for creating powerful MediaWiki sites, and filling them
with varied and useful collaborative content. Whether you are
creating a public wiki for completely open contributions, a private
wiki for collaborating within your work team or group of friends,
or even a wiki for personal use, this book will show you all the
essential steps. You will see the various ways of organizing and
managing content, and preventing collaboration from getting out of
control. well as becoming a wiki markup wizard to produce
intricately formatted pages with tables, lists, and more. On the
technical side, the book covers how to administer users, back up
and restore content safely, migrate your installation to another
server or database, and even make hacks to the code. MediaWiki is
the free, open-source wiki engine software that powers Wikipedia
and many of the other popular wikis across the Web. Written in PHP,
it possesses many features that make it the engine of choice for
large collaborative wikis: flexible markup, comprehensive user
management, multimedia handling, and more. Among the many topics
covered are: Installing MediaWiki and getting started quickly;
Using special pages and domains; Running multiple wikis from a
single installation; Incorporating images, multimedia, and advanced
formatting; Structuring your wiki from the start for easy
navigation as it grows; Managing users and protecting pages from
vandalism; and, Creating new MediaWiki templates. The power that
makes MediaWiki so popular also makes it daunting for many would-be
administrators. trial and error, enabling them to get their site up
and running quickly and easily. A fun example that runs through the
book holds everything together as you see how a real site develops
and improves as more and more features of MediaWiki are used. This
book is for competent computer users who want to run MediaWiki.
They should have some knowledge of HTML and have used a wiki
before. No PHP knowledge is required for most of the book, although
some chapters at the end include some PHP code.
General
| Imprint: |
Packt Publishing Limited
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
December 2010 |
| First published: |
March 2007 |
| Authors: |
Mizanur Rahman
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 191 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
284 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-904811-59-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Computing & IT >
Internet >
Web design
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| LSN: |
1-904811-59-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781904811596 |
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