Professional WikisThe success of Wikipedia has proven just how effective wikis can be for collaborative editing on a large scale—larger than anyone originally thought possible. This book shows you how to install, use, manage, and extend a wiki using MediaWiki—the wiki engine used to power Wikipedia. As each chapter builds on previous ones, tasks involving wikis progress from simple to those of increasing complexity and evolve from theory to case study. You'll learn wiki terminology and how to create user accounts and new pages, use wiki links, and find your way around the wiki. Special focus is placed on how wikis are used in software and web development projects and how their capabilities ideally suit a specific environment and audience. You'll quickly come to discover why wikis are a valuable addition for any organization that wants to increase productivity using web-based collaboration tools. What you will learn from this book
Who this book is for This book is for programmers, developers, information architects, designers, and content authors who are looking to use wikis to improve team productivity. Knowledge of HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and PostgreSQL is necessary. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job. |
Contents
Wikis at Work | 2 |
Web Content Management Systems | 9 |
Installing MediaWiki | 21 |
Installing MediaWiki | 29 |
Configuring Short URLs | 36 |
Fresh Wiki | 51 |
Actions | 68 |
Formatting and Styles | 85 |
Redirects | 159 |
Summary | 172 |
Magic Words Templates and Skins | 173 |
User Interface | 185 |
Summary | 196 |
Tag Extensions | 204 |
Parser Functions with Messages | 212 |
Special Pages | 219 |
Lists | 94 |
HTML on Wiki Pages | 105 |
Editing Alternatives | 111 |
Image Linking and Embedding | 118 |
Uploading Documents | 134 |
How Pages Work | 137 |
Actions | 143 |
The MediaWiki API | 223 |
API php | 229 |
Summary | 261 |
Improving Performance | 276 |
Maintenance Scripts | 282 |