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[edit] Using MediaWiki

MediaWiki has been successfully installed...

[edit] Editing this Wiki

[edit] Wiki Support

  • Wiki admin:Lachlan Andrew, Tom Quetchenbach and Hana
  • Also contact members of Prof. Steven Low's group Netlab!
  • Also Netlab website is hosted by CS Admin with email help at cs dot caltech dot edu and *Netlab webmasters:Lachlan Andrew, Tom Quetchenbach and Hana

[edit] Sysops topics

  • More useful links for Sysops topics already listed in Using wiki section above.
  • The source files for this wiki folder name mwiki, are mounted onto file server:WiL-FS and edited/hosted via web server:WiL-DELL3
  • This wiki URL is <http://wil.cs.caltech.edu/mwiki/>
  • The common CSS definitions within this wiki can be edited at MediaWiki:Common.css
  • 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.
  • Paste contents from small page onto a larger page by typing {{:small page name}} onto larger page. For example, Windows management servers has contents pasted from small pages onto a larger page.
  • Starting a new page labelled [[Private: ___]] denotes private page requiring restricted password

[edit] Linux command line

  • To view instructions on changing file permissions on Unix, type man chmod on the Linux command line. Then admin can choose which files are w= writable, R=readable etc by admin or group. If in doubt ask Netlab member or CS sysadmin!
  • ssh to website, then type in cd .. enter then ln -s hanas_site/filename.php creates symbolic link to Hana's Netlab website stored at CS, Caltech.
  • For WiL users, a short summary of usage can be obtained by typing 
  <command> --help

into the linux command line.

[edit] Special pages

[edit] Error messages

  • 404 Not Found is an error message when non-existent URL is typed into the browser, ie webpage not found
  • 403 Access forbidden, ie when user is not allowed access to some pages

[edit] Create account / Restricting User Level

Accounts for this wiki have been given mostly to WiL users and Netlab members.

Editing has been limited to users logged in existing user account and user levels have been restricted in some accounts.

See also section above Linux commands, on changing file permissions!

Special:Specialpages has pages important to managing user accounts, for example

Useful instructions from <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/> and <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/>:

[edit] Upload files

[edit] Upload limit and more

  • Know Media Wiki upload limit 2MB
  • pdf, ppt, jpg are formats can now be uploaded to this wiki, after relevant code was modified in LocalSettings.php
  • Once the file has been uploaded, remember to acknowledge the source or bibliography details on the upload page, and ensure it does not violate copyright and disclaimer related issues!

[edit] Images

[edit] 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 this current wiki version and which is on WiL-DELL3 (192.168.10.13).
  • create folder "ImageMagick" on WillDell3 192.168.10.13 C:\program files
  • onto this ImageMagick folder, download ImageMagick

On 8/16/08 this version: MediaWiki: 1.10.0; PHP: 5.2.1 (isapi); MySQL: 4.1.12-nt

[edit] 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
  • Image details: Most 2007-2008 photos taken with CanonA710S; photo editing with Microsoft Paint, Picasa, Adobe photoshop/Dreamweaver on Web_server, files transferred via Picasa Web album, email, pico edit wget from draft website

[edit] Find images in wiki

To lists all the image files (jpg, pdf, etc) on this wiki, click on Special pages on sidebar, then select All pages, then on this page select image in the Namespace box (pull down menu), and lastly select Go.

[edit] Navigation

[edit] Creating a redirect

Re-directs are useful for searching for specific page by various keywords or other alternative names.

To create a redirect, you must start a new page with the name you want to direct from. Do this by typing the desired name into the search box, or straight into the URL (methods described on Help:Starting a new page)

For the text of the new page, enter the following: 

  #REDIRECT [[pagename]]

where pagename is the name of the page you want to redirect users to.

You can use the 'preview' button, to check that you have entered the correct page name (Generally you will be redirecting to an existing page name, so the link should be blue, not red)

  • Redirect page to another page: On "Old wiki page" type in #REDIRECT [[New page link ]]

[edit] Categories

  • [[Category:___]] files page under new or old category, very useful for grouping pages by category!

[edit] Side bar

Special:Categories, Special:All articles, Wiki help was added to side bar to list all pages by category and by article - quicker for user to find specific pages.

[edit] Other features added

[edit] Case Sensitivity

Added $wgCapitalLinks = false; to Local settings.php to make page titles and usernames case-sensitive,

[edit] Social networking bookmarks

Followed instructions on <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis> for downloads and adding social networking bookmarks like <http://digg.com/>

[edit] version

This wiki version is an updated version of older ones (pmwiki then wiki 1.6 then 1.9...then 1.10) The database and pages were copied over to this version in early 2008.

[edit] Searching literature

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