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====Admin file permissions====
====Admin file permissions====

Revision as of 23:44, 13 July 2007

MediaWiki has been successfully installed.

About Wiki

For version information, see Special:version.

About media Wiki

Using Wiki

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Editing tips for Wiki

Other topics

  • Editing common CSS definitions, see notes on MediaWiki:Common.css
  • The sidebar can be edited at MediaWiki:Sidebar.

For instructions, see Mwiki manual on Navigation bar

  • To change an Infobox template, create a page in the Template: namespace.
  • Redirect page to another page:

On "Old wiki page" type in #Redirect [[New page link ]]

Admin file permissions

To view instructions on changing file permissions on Unix, type in "man chmod" on the Linux command line. Admin can choose which files are w= writable, R=readable etc by admin or group. If in doubt ask Lun or CDS sysadmin.

Images

Thumbnails

To install software to create thumbnails on this mwiki, 

  ...\mwiki\localsettings.php
  • ensure the ImageMagick version that you choose to download is compatible with version listed above
  • create folder "ImageMagick" on CDS server
  • onto this ImageMagick folder, download ImageMagick

Add Images

 ...\mwiki\localsettings.php

was edited to enable file uploading from the Toolbox on the Sidebar.

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