Jtneill

I like to learn about MediaWiki. I mostly edit at English Wikiversity. For more info about me, see my sisterproject pages.

Add to Wikiversity

• Extension:Multi-Category Search

Current

• Extension:EasyTimeline - [1]
• Extension:Collection
• Manual:Moving a wiki
• Manual:Security - Manual:Securing database passwords

Administration

• Sysadmin hub

Calculations

• meta:Help:Calculation
• Help:ParserFunctions

Colours

Background Colors

• w:Web colors#X11 color names
• w:User:Trödel/Color chart (8-bit)

Reds IndianRed LightCoral Salmon DarkSalmon LightSalmon Crimson Red FireBrick DarkRed

Yellows Gold Yellow LightYellow LemonChiffon LightGoldenrodYellow PapayaWhip Moccasin PaleGoldenrod Khaki

Greens MediumSeaGreen SeaGreen ForestGreen Green DarkGreen YellowGreen OliveDrab Olive DarkOliveGreen

Blues CadetBlue SteelBlue LightSteelBlue PowderBlue LightBlue SkyBlue LightSkyBlue MediumBlue DarkBlue

Greys Gainsboro LightGrey Silver DarkGray Gray LightSlateGray SlateGray DarkSlateGray Black

Browns Cornsilk BlanchedAlmond NavajoWhite Wheat BurlyWood Tan SaddleBrown Sienna Brown

Pastels White Honeydew MintCream Azure AliceBlue GhostWhite WhiteSmoke Seashell Beige

Configuring

1. Manual:Configuration settings
2. Configuring

Conversions

• Conversions

CSS/Skins

• Manual:Interface
• MediaWiki:Common.css
• Manual:Skin configuration

Gadgets

• HotCat

Help

• Help:Contents
• Help:Range blocks

ISBN

• Manual:ISBN

Images

• Examples of linking an image directly to a link - requires the ImageMap extension
• Treasure box link to to a random page:

• Email link to wiki-email:

• Tango Icon Library
• Gallery

<gallery>
Image:{filename}|{caption}
Image:{filename}|{caption}
{...}
</gallery>

Captions are optional, and may contain wiki links or other formatting.

Interface

• Manual:Interface

Installation

My notes about MediaWiki installation.

FAQ

• Manual:FAQ

Firefox

• http://wikipedia.mozdev.org/

Formatting

• Help:Formatting

Index

• Noindex

Interwiki

• m:Interwiki map
• Category:Interwiki extensions
• Manual:Guide to setting up interwiki linking
• Extension:InterWiki
• Extension:SpecialInterwiki
• Default interwiki links
• meta:Help:Interwiki_linking

Mouse-over

Using: Template:H:title

1. Template:H:title
2. Template:H:title

Safe mode

• Safe mode
• http://jehy.ru/articles/2008/09/29/mediawiki-in-safe-mode_images-deleted-thumbnails-timezone-etc/

Search

• MediaWiki search improved

Settings

• Manual:$wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf

Shortcuts

• Help:Keyboard shortcuts

Sidebar

• Manual:Interface/Sidebar
• w:User:Mike Dillon/Sidebar

Sitenotice

• MediaWiki:Sitenotice
• MediaWiki:Sitenotice id

Subversion

• Subversion

Style

Columns

• Columns

Plain links

• Plain links, e.g., my website is Wilderdom. A plain link to an external website can be achieved with <div class="plainlinks">...</div>.

This text uses <div class="usermessage">...</div>

System admin

• Sysadmin hub

Topics

• Category:Page specific user rights extensions
• Images - Manual:Image_Administration#SVG
• Magic words - #titleparts
• Namespaces
• Tables
• Special characters
• Parser functions
• Meta
• Purge
• Tracking changes
• Manual:Wiki family
• Wikis go printable
• Manual:Wiki on a stick
• /WYSIWIG
• Manual:FAQ#How do I change the footer?

Misc

• http://test.wikipedia.org
• Summer of Code 2008
• How do I change the footer?