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MediaWiki has been successfully installed.

About Wiki

For version information, see Special:version.

About media Wiki

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 at Netlab with assistance from CDS, Caltech and Lachlan Andrew at Netlab.

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 ]]

  • 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:

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.

Support

  • Contact webmasters: Lun Li, John Doyle, Gloria Bain at CDS

or Hana & Lachlan at Netlab, CS

or contact CDS

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