Difference between revisions of "GeeklogWiki:Help"

Revision as of 18:54, 28 June 2004

Table of Contents

1. Installation (see also CVS tree installation)
   1. on Linux
   2. on Windows
   3. on Mac OS X
   4. on FreeBSD
2. Configuration
   1. Apache config
      1. Robots.txt -- how to avoid search engines to index the internals of your wiki
      2. Rewrite Rules -- how to get rid of /index.php in URLs
   2. PHP config
   3. MySQL config
   4. Setting user rights
   5. MediaWiki i18n -- localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
   6. Configuring interwiki links
   7. Custom skins
   8. Timezone adjustments
   9. More tweaks
3. Using MediaWiki
   1. Logging-in
   2. Setting preferences
      1. User styles -- Your own css/js in the monobook skin (1.3)
   3. Editing pages
      1. Editing overview
      2. Starting a new page
      3. Adding multimedia to pages
      4. Using tables
      5. EasyTimeline Syntax
      6. Using redirects
      7. Interwiki linking
      8. Using Categories
      9. Renaming (moving) pages
      10. Reverting a page to an earlier version
      11. Editing mathematical formulae
      12. MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing toolbar
      13. Creating special characters
          1. Creating Turkish characters
          2. Creating Romanian characters
      14. Using predefined text blocks in articles (msg and subst)
   4. Tracking changes
      1. The Recent Changes page
      2. The enhanced Recent Changes page
      3. Using the Related Changes function
      4. Using the Watchlist
      5. Using the page history
   5. Reading
      1. Searching for pages
      2. "What links here" feature
      3. Using the random page function
   6. Administration
4. Appendix
   1. MediaWiki tips and tricks
   2. MediaWiki FAQ
   3. ISBN links
   4. Common stop words
   5. Sites using MediaWiki
   6. Browser issues with MediaWiki
   7. URLs
   8. Page metadata
   9. XML export
   10. How to become a MediaWiki hacker
   11. How to move a MediaWiki Database
   12. Shortcuts
   13. Automatic conversion of wikitext
5. Glossary
   1. The Go button
   2. Namespaces
   3. Edit summary
   4. Edit conflict
   5. Image description page
   6. Hyperlink
   7. Piped link
   8. Sections
   9. Talk pages
   10. User contributions page
   11. Diff page
   12. Templates
   13. Variables