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Revision as of 22:46, 1 August 2008
MediaWiki has been successfully installed.
About Wiki
For version information, see Special:version.
In July 2007, this wiki was initially installed by Lun Li at CDS & Netlab, Caltech. The wiki pages were initally set up by Prof J Doyle, Lun Li, Hana (from Netlab) with assistance from CDS and Lachlan Andrew from Netlab.
This wiki is to document Prof. J. C. Doyle & his groups's research activities.
Using Wiki
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
Editing tips for Wiki
SysOps / Wiki admin tips
- 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 ]]
Restricting file permissions and User account
- 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.
- Admin creating accounts:
- Managing User accounts
- User levels
- On this wiki, login as a Sysops user => Special pages => "Login/Create Account" => Create Account, fill in the fields.
- To Do lists items to be updated by end of Sept 2007!
- Instructions for removing 'edit' tabs for users not logged in![1]
Upload limit
Images
Thumbnails
To install software to create thumbnails on this mwiki,
- follow instructions on MediaWiki:Help for creating thumbnails
- edit code in file below, as instructed
...\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.
- Upload image onto this wiki by clicking on "Upload file" option in Toolbox on the MediaWiki:Sidebar.
- MediaWiki:Help Adding images
Support
- Contact webmasters: Lun Li, John Doyle, Gloria Bain at CDS
or Hana & Lachlan at Netlab, CS
or contact CDS
Searching literature
Searching J Doyle's literature on this wiki
- Click on sidebar "Papers"
- Click on sidebar "Special pages" and then click on "categories", then select "papers".
- Click on "all pages" and then select "images" then click "go".