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Using and Editing MediaWiki

MediaWiki has been successfully installed.

Version:

 MediaWiki: 1.6.10 
 PHP: 4.3.2 (apache2filter) 
 MySQL: 4.1.20

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

Getting started

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

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

Other topics

• The common CSS definitions within this wiki can be edited at 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 ] ]