Author: Mizanur Rahman
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Keywords: mediawiki, customize, installation, manage, guide, administrators, tutorial, install
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1904811590
ISBN-13: 9781904811596

This book covers the open-source MediaWiki wiki engine from installation and getting started through structuring your collaborative website, advanced formatting, images, multimedia, security, and managing users to backing up, restoring, and migrating your installation and creating new MediWiki templates.The book has a fast-paced, friendly tutorial style and uses a fun example to teach all of MediaWiki’s key features. Run your own MediaWiki collaborative website with this fast-paced, friendly tutorial, which is full of information and advice for creating powerful MediaWiki sites, and f

Author: Richard Carter
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Keywords: mediawiki, skins, templates, site, designing, design, attractive
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-08-22
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1847195202
ISBN-13: 9781847195203

In Detail Wikis are a great way to collaborate and share knowledge online. MediaWiki is a popular and powerful wiki engine, powering some of the biggest wiki sites in the world - including Wikipedia, the biggest and most famous wiki of all. If you have a MediaWiki-based site and want to tailor its appearance, then this book is for you. MediaWiki Skins Design shows you how to fully customize the appearance and interface of your MediaWiki-based wiki. You will learn how to change every aspect of your wikii’s appearance to produce a MediaWiki site fully tailored to your requirements.

Author: Daniel J. Barrett
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: wikipedia, mediawiki
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-10-14
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0596519796
ISBN-13: 9780596519797

"A good book! It’s a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation." -Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation "This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It’s not just spouting some party line." -Rob Church, a developer of MediaWiki MediaWiki is the world’s most popular wiki platform, the software that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for m