Help:Contents

Tutorials by Wiki Users for Other Users.

• Quick Tutorial No. 1

Formatting Citations

• Chicago Style Citations:
  • Cite a Newspaper Tool.
  • Cite a Book Tool.
  • Cite a Website Tool.
  • Cite a Magazine Article Tool.
  • Cite anything else tool - Complete list.

• Wikipedia Style Citations (not used on this wiki but for general reference):
  • Wikipedia, Citation (Citing Sources).
  • Mediawiki, Cite Extension Syntax]

Wiki Features Help Pages

• MediaWiki Editing 101 (FAQ), start here.
• MediaWiki Editing 401, Wiki Markup (The Whole Shebang).
• Detailed Help on Tables
• A WikiTables generator - helps learning how to format tables.
• Detailed help on images.
  • Collapse Botton used in Tables
• Support Java Script for Various Wiki Functions.
• How to include content from other pages.
• Creating Hyperlinks.
• Convert Docs to Wiki Markup.
• How to use Signatures.]
• Hide the table of contents on any page.
• Hiding the main page title.
• Editing the Left Sidebar Menu.
• Editing the Sitenotice.]
• Command: Manually Purging Pages.
• Using __Magic Words__
• Understanding Namespaces

Wiki Extensions Help Pages

• Adding the __NOTITLE_ Magic word extension.
• Extension: Using Cite for references and footnotes on pages.
• Extension: Using Category Tree
• Extension: Google Analytics.
• Extension:Embed Documents.
• Extension:Syntax Highlighter.
• Extension:ParserFunctions.
• Extension:ExpandTemplates.
• Extension:Popups are little info windows that pop up when hovering on page and reference links.
• Extension:PageImages collects information about images on pages for Popups.
• Extension:TextExtracts Takes the text of the page for Popups.

Wiki Extensions Under Consideration

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Todo_Tasks
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tasks_Extension
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfHandler
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Embed_Document

Wiki Configuration

• Configuring File Uploads.
• Items per category page.
• Gallery configuration options.
• File Cache Directory for server side caching.
• All about performance caching on Mediawiki.
• MediaWiki configuration settings 1.6.0
• Thumbnail Regeneration.
• How to Debug.]

Development

• Main Pages Ideas & Code
• HTML to Wiki Markup.
• Simple Table Example

Consideration of Switching to a Wikifarm

• Wikifarm - How to.
• Extension:Simple Farm.
• Moving a wiki to another server or domain.