Administering MediaWiki Training Course
Course
In City Of London
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
City of london
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
Facilities
Location
Start date
Start date
Reviews
Subjects
- Accounts
- FreeBSD
Course programme
Setup
- Installation requirements and environment
- Basic initialization
- LocalSettings.php
- Extension installation requirements
- Navigation
- Searching
- Tracking changes
- Watchlist
- Editing pages
- Starting a new page
- Formatting
- Links
- 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
- 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
Administering MediaWiki Training Course