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=Using and Editing MediaWiki=
<big>'''MediaWiki has been successfully installed.'''</big>
 
==About Wiki==
For version information, see [[Special:version]].


<big>'''MediaWiki has been successfully installed.'''</big>
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki About media Wiki]


Version:
==Using Wiki==
  MediaWiki: 1.6.10
  PHP: 4.3.2 (apache2filter)
  MySQL: 4.1.20
Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
== Getting started ==


* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]
* [http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help MediaWiki Help list]
 
==Editing tips for Wiki==
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help MediaWiki Help list]
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages]
 
=== Other topics ===
* Editing common CSS definitions, see notes on [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* The sidebar can be edited at [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]. 
For instructions, see [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Navigation_bar 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 ] ]


==Images==
==Images==
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*Upload image onto this wiki by clicking on "Upload file" option in Toolbox on the [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]].
*Upload image onto this wiki by clicking on "Upload file" option in Toolbox on the [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]].
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images MediaWiki:Help Adding images]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images MediaWiki:Help Adding images]
== Other topics ==
* The common CSS definitions within this wiki can be edited at <!-- [http://wil.cs.caltech.edu/mwiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css]--> [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* The sidebar can be edited at [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]].  For instructions, see <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual: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 ] ]

Revision as of 00:00, 9 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

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 ] ]

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.