Template:Historical This is the User's Guide for MediaWiki, the software program that runs Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, in particular about the latest version 1.3, to which, during the period 21-29 May 2004, all Wikimedia sites have been upgraded.
Version 1.3 is a beta version. The latest stable release is version 1.2.6. See MediaWiki roadmap for an overview of the differences. Earlier versions of the pages in this guide (available from the page histories), in particular the last one before 29 May 2004, may be helpful as guide for version 1.2.6.
This guide often refers to the English versions of link labels and messages. For translations, see MediaWiki i18n.
Table of contents
- Architecture and overview
- Installation (see also CVS tree installation)
- Configuration
- Apache config
- Robots.txt -- how to avoid search engines to index the internals of your wiki
- Rewrite Rules -- how to get rid of /index.php in URLs
- PHP config
- MySQL config
- Setting user rights
- MediaWiki i18n -- localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
- Configuring interwiki links
- Custom skins
- Timezone adjustments
- More tweaks
- Configuration tips and tricks
- Apache config
- Using MediaWiki
- Logging-in
- Setting preferences
- User styles -- Your own css/js in the monobook skin (1.3)
- Editing pages
- Editing overview
- Starting a new page
- Adding multimedia to pages
- Using tables
- EasyTimeline Syntax
- Using redirects
- Link, Interwiki linking
- Using Categories
- Renaming (moving) pages
- Reverting a page to an earlier version
- Editing mathematical formulae
- Editing toolbar
- Special characters
- Using predefined text blocks in articles (msg and subst)
- Tracking changes
- Reading
- Administration
- Appendix
- Glossary
See also
- Mailing lists
- MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion
- Documentation - on installation, configuration, administration, security; may not be up-to-date