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MediaWiki is the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation. | MediaWiki is the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation. | ||
| − | I'm Greg Rundlett, a free software advocate who lives in Newburyport, MA with my wife and two sons. I'm here to show you a lot of things about the wiki system called MediaWiki and hope that you'll take away a lot from this presentation. The great thing about sharing knowledge; like sharing free software; is that you can take away as much as you possibly can and I may take away an even greater knowledge than I started with just from our sharing. Nobody has less, everybody has more. | + | I'm Greg Rundlett [http://iic.harvard.edu/people] [http://freephile.com] [http://rundlett.com], a free software advocate who lives in Newburyport, MA with my wife and two sons. I'm here to show you a lot of things about the wiki system called MediaWiki and hope that you'll take away a lot from this presentation. The great thing about sharing knowledge; like sharing free software; is that you can take away as much as you possibly can and I may take away an even greater knowledge than I started with just from our sharing. Nobody has less, everybody has more. |
Oh, and I do have some tangible free and cool stuff too. Freebies (books, commons) | Oh, and I do have some tangible free and cool stuff too. Freebies (books, commons) | ||
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##<pre>[[Special:ListGroupRights]]</pre> Image searching | ##<pre>[[Special:ListGroupRights]]</pre> Image searching | ||
# Protection | # Protection | ||
| − | # Microformats Wikipedia implements microformats easily because through the power of templates, an author can fill out a template and not even know that he is using microformats in the final product. Firefox, through the tails extension, can [http://vimeo.com/192962/ export microformats via bluetooth], so that an employee directory on your intranet can talk to your mobile phone. @TODO: write up a contact template, a contact page and test the export | + | # Microformats Wikipedia implements microformats easily because through the power of templates, an author can fill out a template and not even know that he is using microformats in the final product. Firefox, through the tails extension, can [http://vimeo.com/192962/ export microformats via bluetooth], so that an employee directory on your intranet can talk to your mobile phone. @TODO: write up a contact template, a contact page and test the export |
== Creating Structure == | == Creating Structure == | ||
Revision as of 23:48, 16 December 2008
- ↑ CamelCase
