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Administering MediaWiki Training Course

Course

Online

£ 850 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Methodology

    Online

This course has been created for people who are going to use MediaWiki software as editors, users and web site administrators.
This course explains how to:
Find the information you are looking for on an existing site
Create, edit and remove pages
Design a structure of the page
Analyse the best solution for the structure of the entire project
Manage users
Create and manage a community
Some projects using MediaWiki:
Wikipedia
Free encyclopedia
Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus
Wikinews
Free content news source
Wikiversity
Free learning tools
Commons
Shared media repository
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations
Wikisource
Free source documents
Wikispecies
Directory of species

About this course

Good familiarity with a web browser. Content editing knowledge beneficial but not required.

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Course programme

Setup
  • Installation requirements and environment
  • Basic initialization
  • LocalSettings.php
  • Extension installation requirements
Reading
  • Navigation
  • Searching
  • Tracking changes
  • Watchlist
Editing
  • Editing pages
  • Starting a new page
  • Formatting
  • Links
Advanced editing
  • Images
  • Tables
  • Categories
  • Managing files
  • Moving (renaming) a page
  • Redirects
  • Deleting a page
  • Protected pages
  • Templates
  • Variables
  • Special pages
  • External searches
  • User pages
  • Talk pages
  • Signatures
  • Subpages
  • Namespaces
Wiki administration
  • Sysops and permissions

The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to all wiki users.

  • Protecting and unprotecting pages
  • Sysop deleting and undeleting
  • Patrolled edits
  • Blocking users
  • Range IP blocks
  • Assigning permissions

Additional information

7 hours (usually 1 day including breaks)

Administering MediaWiki Training Course

£ 850 VAT inc.