Administering MediaWiki Training Course
Node ID: 11704
Duration
7 hours
Requirements
Good familiarity with a web browser. Content editing knowledge beneficial but not required.
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| Date | Venue | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-05-22 09:30 | London, Westbourne Grove | From 440 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-05-29 09:30 | Manchester | From 440 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-06-22 09:30 | Bristol, Temple Gate | From 440 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-06-29 09:30 | London, Westbourne Grove | From 440 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-07-04 09:30 | Bristol, Temple Gate | From 440 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-07-05 09:30 | Manchester | From 440 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-08-03 09:30 | Bristol, Temple Gate | From 396 to 801 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-08-08 09:30 | London, Westbourne Grove | From 396 to 801 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-08-31 09:30 | Manchester | From 396 to 801 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-09-17 09:30 | Bristol, Temple Gate | From 396 to 801 GBP Check! |
Overview
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:
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Wikipedia Free encyclopedia |
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Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus |
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Wikinews Free content news source |
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Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals |
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Wikiquote Collection of quotations |
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Wikisource Free source documents |
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Wikiversity Free learning tools |
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Wikispecies Directory of species |
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Commons Shared media repository |
Course Outline
Setup
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Installation requirements and environment
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Basic initialization
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LocalSettings.php
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Extension installation requirements
Reading
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Navigation
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Searching
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Tracking changes
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Watchlist
Editing
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Editing pages
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Starting a new page
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Formatting
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Links
Advanced editing
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Images
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Tables
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Categories
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Managing files
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Moving (renaming) a page
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Redirects
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Deleting a page
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Protected pages
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Templates
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Variables
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Special pages
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External searches
Wiki administration
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Sysops and permissions
The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to all wiki users.
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Protecting and unprotecting pages
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Sysop deleting and undeleting
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Patrolled edits
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Blocking users
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Range IP blocks
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Assigning permissions
