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<slide>style</slide>== Preface ==from This article is the basis for a presentation on MediaWiki that will be given at the January 14th 2009 meeting of the BostonPHP group. [http://metawww.wikimediabostonphp.org/wikicomponent/option,com_gigcal/task,details/gigcal_gigs_id,65/Itemid,42/UserPlease RSVP to the calendar item at the BostonPHP website] if you plan to attend.  internal notes http:BR/S5_slide_for_mediawiki_documentation/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences

# DONE Do slides on s5 so I can play and distribute the slides# DONE write an extension that creates an s5 slideshow from mw article(s)# Ask DONE Contact Andy Oram for about getting a copy of the O'Reilly MediaWiki book; invite# 85% Write outline, get more detail out at BostonPHP website# 100% Publicize // sent notice to local groups, O'Reilly, facebook, Meetup etc.# 50% Complete presentation## 10% Images## 10% Video# 0% Rehearseand Repeat# 0% Record to video for blogging-->

<!-- Cue POTY slideshow and play in loop 30 minutes prior to presentationCue MediaWiki slideshow 5 minutes prior to presentationThere is video, but so far I haven't been able to slice it and keep the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under audio track intact.-->These screenshots of [[:Category:MediaWiki Sites|sites running MediaWiki]] illustrate the auspices breadth of usage in the Wikimedia Foundation Freebies software world, and also some compelling theming examples. Audio of my presentation is at http://www.archive.org/details/collaboration.at.wiki.speed-audio-part1 <!-- and locally at http://freephile.com/mediawiki-greg.mp3 (books, commons45 minutes long)-->

== Using it What's a Wiki? ==I'm not going into a detailed comparison Wiki is the Hawaiian word for quick, and Ward Cunningham - the inventor of various wikis, trying to argue which the wiki - named his project after the wiki wiki shuttle. A backcronym that is probably equally apropos is bestWIKI stands for "What I Know Is. But I'll point out a few reasons why you should care about .." MediaWiki in case you don't knowis the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under the auspices of the [http://www.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation].

== Meet the speaker ==[[Image:Thomas Jefferson rev.jpg|thumb|right|He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.]] 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.  <!--What do I know about wikis in production? Well, back in 1999 when I was a web developer at RagingBull, we used a wiki system as a content creation and management backend to our website front-end. Starting in 2005, I used MediaWiki as the platform to organize operations, development and technology services at OASIS. Most recently, I've been deploying MediaWiki in my new role at the IIC at Harvard. I'm here to share some of that experience with you. The great thing about sharing knowledge; like sharing free software; is... [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson quoting Thomas Jefferson] ''He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.''<ref>[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson], 13 Aug. 1813. ME 13:333</ref> Plus our organizer Mark Withington has arranged through the BostonPHP association with O'Reilly Media for some free books to be given away as well.-->== Using it - Why? ==Wikis are immensely popular and come in many flavors. It was late 2006 to early 2007 when 'wiki' reached it's zenith as a buzzword in the news.<ref>[http://www.google.com/trends?q=wiki Google Trends for keyword wiki]</ref> But wikis have not faded into the sunset like last years fashion. I'll point out a few reasons why you should choose MediaWiki as your wiki platform. It's the most popular wiki software in the world; both in terms of hosting the largest single wiki [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiPedia] as well as deployments by all sort of individuals, groups and corporations. In practical terms that means people you hire will know mediawikiMediaWiki.The growth curve of MediaWiki is exponential. The quality of the software is excellent.

WikiPedia now has over ten million articles across 250 languages! Does your wiki have [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home a foundation] to keep it going? Does your wiki have a [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ multimedia repository] which hosts over 3,400,000 multimedia files? Wikimedia Commons does. === Syntax ===I do want to point out that MediaWiki does not use <ref>CamelCase</ref> words in order to make a link. This means a lot to all the Irish people of the world, and also the marketers who seem pretty convinced of the coolness of McWords like ThinkPad, etc.

http://example.com links are automatic and by using a simple bracket notation, you can make them prettier and more meaningful e.g. <nowkipre>[http://www.vimeo.com/2142196 See the kids in their Halloween costumes]</nowikipre> yields[http://www.vimeo.com/2142196 See the kids in their Halloween costumes]

* External === Editor Options ===; WYSIWYG editor:Weird Yucky Sucky Interference With Your Goodness * Wysiwyg editor<ol><li> [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cacycle/wikEd WikEd] is a full wysiwyg editor with special features for MediaWiki. You can install it for yourself in a single browser as a user script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12529 or you can install it into your mediawiki MediaWiki installation. {{Messagebox |* Style sheets and|type=normal* Use |text=wikEd is enabled sitewide on this wiki. Turn it on in your [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] settings}}<li> FCK Editor is a full wysiwyg editor that includes page link searching as you type<li> Java project called Textile-J is now an Eclipse plugin called the "Mylyn WikiText component" that does wiki markup http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/Web_Links-index-req-viewlink-cid-1098.html<li> Kaltura does a collaborative video editing solution http://userscriptscorp.kaltura.orgcom/wiki/scriptsindex.php/showMediaWiki_Extension</6372 greasemonkey script to show any mediawiki page as a presentationol>

==== WikEd ====

* Runs automatically on every MediaWiki installation when installed as a local [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey ] user script

##<nowikipre>__NOTOC__, __TOC__ #REDIRECT __HIDDENCAT__</nowikipre> # Variables#<nowikipre>{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}</nowikipre> # Search - OpenSearch# Interwiki links# Import/Export (TODO talk about exporting to text)

##<nowikipre>[[Special:ListGroupRights]]</nowikipre> # Image searchingGalleries like [[Special:NewImages]]# SVG support# Protection(lock a page) Not to be confused with 'versions' that helps with things like versioned documentation for software products.# 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

# [[Namespaces ]] or go directly to [[Special:PrefixIndex]]<dl>

## <dt> Project <dd> Used as a "About Us" namespace -- not used for the main content of your wiki, but normally reserved for pages about the project which created the wiki. If you need to do a substantial edit to a template and want to try it out, one method of doing that would be to copy the article into the project namespace, use the new template, and your article wouldn't be normally included in search results.## <dt> Help <dd> What it sounds like, this namespace isunfortunately empty with a new installation. See [[MediaWiki/Help]]

# [[Templates ]] "[[transclusion]]"## <nowikipre><noinclude> </noinclude> <includeonly></includeonly></nowikipre> show [[Template:Messagebox]] example.

## copying from mediawiki MediaWiki [[Special:ExpandTemplates]]

Another useful tool to the Administrator is the bulk image importer. To import all the screenshots that I used at the start of this presentation, I did the following:<source lang="bash">php importImages.php --user= Administering it =Freephile --comment='Set of screenshots of sites using MediaWiki ' ~/Desktop/mediawiki/snaps/</source>* Custom menuNote how using a Category tag in the comment will automatically place the images in the Category specified.

* # Theming* # Extensions# Conversion of existing wikis and documents [[Format conversion]]# [[API]]s are very useful to developers. [[mw:Developers|MediaWiki Developers]] can use the [[mw:API|Application Programming Interface for MediaWiki]] which gets exposed at /api.php, as well as the http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot framework which helps to automate manipulation of the wiki.# Database

# [http://www.mediawikiMediaWiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions The Manual]# [http://www.mediawikiMediaWiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix An incomplete list of extensions]

{| class="datatable"! Version !! Release date !! End-of-life|-| bgcolor="#00FF00" | 1.14.x| bgcolor="#00FF00" | Not released| bgcolor="#00FF00" ||-| bgcolor="#00FF00" | 1.13.x| bgcolor="#00FF00" | August 14, 2008| bgcolor="#00FF00" | August 2009|-| bgcolor="#FF9400" | 1.12.x| bgcolor="#FF9400" | March 20, 2008| bgcolor="#FF9400" | March 2009|-| bgcolor="#FF1000" | 1.11.x| bgcolor="#FF1000" | September 10, 2007| bgcolor="#FF1000" | September 2008|}[http://www.MediaWiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN use svn] to get it, and that way updating your installation is as simple as <code>svn up</code>  == In Production ===== Creating Slideshows ===[[MediaWiki/Slideshow]]<pre><slide>pixel</slide></pre> will create a nice slideshow<slide>pixel</slide>from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BR/S5_slide_for_mediawiki_documentation/en === Integration with Software Development ===# CodeReview http://www.MediaWiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeReview e.g. http://www.MediaWiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/44245#c829# [http://www.MediaWiki.org/wiki/Extension:ExtensionDistributor ExtensionDistributor] ([https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/ExtensionDistributor info]) is a tool that automatically packages code from subversion and sends the user a tarball. There is a lot of interesting information at wikitech that describes how the WikiMedia Foundation is operated technically === Setup for an intranet and/or KB ===

* http://www.mediawikiMediaWiki.org/wiki/User:Pfctdayelise/Manual:Uselang_hack

* Daniel J. Barrett wrote the [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/toc.html MediaWiki Book] published by O'Reilly ISBN 978-0596519797 (no need for any special markup, ISBN numbers are automatically recognized by the parser. You can also visit [[Special:BookSources]])* IRC* Documentation (remember [[mw:Help:Contents|user at Help:Contents]] and [[mw:Manual:Contents|admin at Manual:Contents]])* Source* [http://userscripts.org/tags/wikipedia More user scripts]* WikiMania videos, audio and transcripts == Notes ==<references />