Administering MediaWiki

Good familiarity with a web browser. Content editing knowledge beneficial but not required.

This course has been created for people who are going to use MediaWiki software as editors, users and website 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

Setup

• Installation requirements and environment
• Basic initialization
• LocalSettings.php
• Extension installation requirements

Reading

• Navigation
• Searching
• Tracking changes
• Watchlist

Editing

• Editing pages
• Starting a new page
• Formatting
• Links

Advanced editing

• 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

Wiki administration

• 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