Help:Contents

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.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list

Editing tips for Wiki

• MediaWiki Help list
• Editing pages

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 ]]

• 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,

• 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