Help:Contents

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Getting started

Media Wiki Home for all things Media Wiki.

• Editing Pages
  • Formatting Text
  • Links
  • Images
  • Tables
• Converting Various Markup to MediaWiki
• Configuration settings list
• The MediaWiki Manual: Information on installation and configuration.
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list

Page Management

• Moving Pages
• Deleting Pages
• Use the Prefix Index (One of the Special Pages) to search for pages that start with a particular tag. For example put the word "Hyrax" in the search field to find all the pages whose names begin with "Hyrax"

Tips and Tricks

• Changing the name of "Main Page"
• Hacking the 'navigation' menu on the left side of the window.
• Namespaces seem like the best way to break up different kinds of content, especially when we need to have different protections for parts of the site.
• Backing up the wiki

MediaWiki Info

• User's Guide.
• Administrator's Guide.
• Manual.
• FAQ.
• An Eclipse plugin for MediaWiki development.

Wiki Maintenance

• Configuration changes