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Structuring
Page
- "Specialpages": Automatically generated content; "Maintenance lists"; "Manager interface"
- "Contentpages": User generated content; versioned changes;
- "Wikipage"
- "File description pages": Hybrid page
- "Cagetory pages": Hybrid page
- ...
Namespace
- Avoid naming collisions
- Used for access restrictions
- A page can only be assigned to one namespace
- Can be identified by a prefix in the page name
- Exception: "Main namespace", aka "(Pages)"
- Special predefined namespaces, like "File", "Category", "User", "Template", ...
- Custom namespaces: E.g. for "Documenttypes" or "Organisational structuring"
- "Talk" namespaces: Associated namespace, like "User_talk", "Template_talk", ...
- Certain functions of the wiki can be activated/deactivated based on namespaces
Category
- "Tagging" mechanism --> Multiple categories for a page
- Namespace independent
- Part of the content --> Everyone that can edit a regular contentpage can also create categories
- Category pages can be categorized --> Treelike catgegory structure
Subpage
- Path indicated by "/" (=forward slash)
- Example: "Product:N52000786-2/Technical notes"
- "Product:" => "namespace prefix"
- "N52000786-2" => "root / parent pagename"
- "Technical notes" => "subpage name"
- Recommendation: not more than two levels
- When to use?
- "strong association" of pages
- "avoid naming collisions"
- When not to use?
- Knowledge base-like content
Content and formatting
Templates (=Text-templates, Text-blocks)
- Include contents
- "Transclusion" => Transfrom + Include
- Dedicated namespace "Template"
- Can take parameters
- Example:
{{Infobox|London}}
Page templates
- Only used then a new page is created
- Prefill mechanism
Wikitext
- Simple to learn
- Effcient to create
- Easy to compare
- (Inline) formantting like bold, italic, underline, ...
- Structuring (markup) like lists, tables, headings, ...
- Special functionality like "Tags", "Hidden comments", ...
- Subset of HTML
- UTF-8 enabled
Functions
Redirects
- Abbreviations
- Synonyms
- Plural / singular
- After renaming/moving a page
Behavior switches
- Aka "double underscores"
- Example:
__NOTOC__ - Influences the particular page it is used on
Variables
- Placeholder for a value that gets filled by the wiki system
- Example:
{{PAGENAME}}--> "Maintainer Training" - Automatically set
- Context sensitive
Parser functions
- "scripting / programming language" for wikitext
- Used to add "logic"
- Mainly used within templates
Tag
- NOT RELATED TO "Category"
- Example:
<smartlist /> - Placeholder for complex output
- e.g. user interface
- Customisations
Interface customizing
- Coloring can be adjusted via CSS on MediaWiki:Common.css
- Text messages can be changed using regular wikipages in the "MediaWiki" namespace (e.g. MediaWiki:Permissionserrorstext-withaction)
- Main (left) navigation menu can be changed in MediaWiki:Sidebar
Books
- Structure of a book is defined in a wikipage within the "Book" namespace. E.g. Book:GoTeach Manual
- Within a "chapter-wikipage", the book needs to be referenced: <nowiki><</nowiki>bookshelf src="Book:GoTeach Manual" / <nowiki>></nowiki>
- Every book should have its own namespace
- Books can be copied using the Book manager
- Shared contents between books can be managed by using "transclusion" (e.g. {{ GoTeachShared:{{PAGENAME}} }})
Permissions Model
