"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
organizing knowledge. In corporate environments,
MediaWiki can transform the way teams write and
collaborate.
This comprehensive book covers
MediaWiki's rich (and sometimes subtle) features,
helping you become a wiki expert in no time. You'll
learn how to:
- Find your way around by effective searching and
browsing
- Create and edit articles, categories, and user
preferences
- Use advanced features for authors, such as
templates, dynamic lists, logical parser functions,
and RSS, to organize and maintain large numbers of
articles
- Install and run your own wiki, and configure its
look and behavior
- Develop custom wiki features, called extensions,
with the PHP programming language and MySQL database
This book also provides special guidance
for creating successful corporate wikis. For beginners
who want to create or work on collaborative,
community-driven websites with this platform,
MediaWiki is the essential one-stop
guide.
"I was a MediaWiki newbie before reading
this book. Now, many aspects of the platform that were
murky before are crystal clear." -JP Vossen, author of
O'Reilly's
Bash Cookbook
