Help getting Started

Getting started with mediawiki

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software and this Markup specification.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Help:Contents.
• You can also add titles to the sidebar via mediawiki:sidebar (or cut-and-paste mediawiki:sidebar after the index.php/ in the search bar)

mediawiki hints

• Markup specification
• text examples
• Help:Formatting
• Help Tables
• Help:Images
• Manual contents
• Namespaces explained
• Custom namespaces
• Configuring File Uploads
• maintenance scripts
• backing up the wiki
• moving the wiki to another server
• font colour names
• Categories

Image Examples

e.g. Edit then include ...

* [[Page Name ]]  to make a page link

• Then press the red-hyperlink to edit your page and include content which may be:

Text ... 
[[file:Some-fileName.jpg/png/pdf etc]] or
[[media:Some-other-file-name.pdf etc]]

See Help_getting_Started#Customisations for details of acceptable MIME media file types.

• You can also add a title to an image via e.g

[[File:somephoto.png|frame|caption-text]]
[[File:somephoto.png|thumb|1000px|left|caption-text]]

• see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax

Markup

• other markup can be read here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
• magic words https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words

Please do not post really big files.

How to Manage Uploaded Files

• You can view all uploaded files via this link List Files
• upload a file via this link Upload Files

Warning, you must be logged into the media wiki in order for an Upload file item to appear in the toolbox in the left hand side panel.

Microsoft Word Documents

Microsoft Word documents can be exported to mediawiki.txt files, containing mediawiki markup. At least this can be performed from Open Office. It is then just a simple matter of fixing the image and other media links, and uploading the media to the wiki. It only took a few minutes to do this. Boy I wished I had known this when I migrated Reverend_Bruce_Holland_tribute/The_Story_of_Bruce_and_Elaine - I had to type the whole lot and it took hours.

I migrated Final departure VH-NFP from a word document I found from 2013 in about 1.2 an hour (I must of thought of publishing it in the AMPA magazine).

Revised 20220920140709 by Ralph