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About Wiki

For version information, see Special:version.

About media Wiki

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.

• 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.

• 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

• Know Media upload limit 2MB

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

• Caltech Library
• IEEE Explore Library
• Google scholar

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".