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Tips and Tricks for MediaWiki

Click here to go to the next tab... Example:

  • CURRENTYEAR is 2024, CURRENTTIME is 09:38, LOCALTIME is 09:38
  • date: 25 Dec 2009 or "now": 30 Apr 2024
  • Revision: 09.2014
  • DueDate used for Master thesis delivery, Due_date used for project and other deliverables

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words

<span style="float: right; font-size: 80%;" > {{REVISIONMONTH}}.{{REVISIONYEAR}}  </span>
{{#formatdate:dec 25,2009|dmy}}


see more in Ask...


 <math> x^2 + y^2 = z^2 </math> 

for easy text formatting, you can also use the NO<sub>2</sub> writing, which provides NO2.

put the word <headertabs/> at the end of the part which is separated in Tabs, and then header 1 will be converted into a tab.

Read more at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Header_Tabs

Style

__NOTOC__
__NOEDITSECTION__

<span style="float: right; font-size: 80%;" > your text here </span>

NOTITLE on pages is achieved by: (see Template:Lecture)

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</span>}}

Span style attributes

text-align:center;
background:color:#ffffee

Images

  • right flow, 350 px, with frame and caption

[[File:image.png|350px|frame|Caption of image|link=http://cwi.unik.no/wiki/UNIK4700]]

  • external images, just include the http link

Logo.gif http://www.unik.no/Images/Logo.gif

References

<ref>   </ref> and 
<references />
The first part will just include a reference, the second one with the name= ... is used to label the references. You may also group references for sorting after e.g. footnotes and references. a good method for the summary is the use of the template
  {{Reflist}} 

For further reading, see: Extension:Cite

Ask on courses in Slideshow mode (other parameters: limit = 10)

a sub-page is a child page to a topic, example UNIK4700/Introduction, where introduction is a sub-page of UNIK4700. The feature is currently not implemented on this wiki, mainly due to (i) don't know how to create and (ii) don't know how to query. Need to look into it.

  • Create: by adding “query string=super_page=Research” to the form.
  • a good article on search in sub-pages and omnitting the "main" page:

http://clkoerner.com/2012/09/06/semantic-mediawiki-templates-and-arraymaps-are-awesome/

Look also for ParserFunctions extension, they allow to give back parts of the header

Rather use inclusion of other pages, either through

  • {{Assignments}} calling the Template:Assignments or through
  • {{:Unik4700:Assignments}} including page UNIK4700:Assignments
  • 3Jan2012 tried compilation again, having renamed SemanticBundle to semantic-bundle
  • sudo make all worked
  • failed at the end, 7z not found, but SemanticBundle-20130103.tgz was created > moved to extensions > tar xvf SemanticBundle-20130103.tgz > created "all extensions"
    • SemanticResultFormats
    • SemanticSignup
    • SemanticTasks
    • SemanticWatchlist
    • SemanticDrilldown
    • ...
    • Widgests
    • Maps
    • Nuke
    • PageSchemas
    • ParserFunctions

Activated through

$ pwd
/var/www/mediawiki/extensions/semantic-bundle
$ sudo vi SemanticBundle.php
$ sudo cp SemanticBundleSettings.sample.php SemanticBundleSettings.php
$ sudo vi SemanticBundleSettings.php
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data *


See a list of Widgets used on this wiki

YouTube widget

{{#widget:WidgetName|param1=value1|param2=value2}}
{{#widget:YouTube|id=DWef69ItVrU}}
  • id - video id (from the URL)
  • playlist - playlist name (starts with PL) - first clip is played (id is ignored)
  • height and width define view dimensions, 420x350 is default


other widgets: mediawiki widgets

29Jan2014: Language settings is not working - after upgrade to Mediawiki 1.22.1 14Feb2013: playing with language functions to test en/no implementation

  • Don't forget to run a "page refresh" (as cache is enabled)
{{#iflang: no |
 dette er en norsk tekst 
 }}
 {{#iflang: en | 
 Secret stuff for english speakers 
 }}
 Here's a bilingual header.
  =={{#iflang: en |English heading }}{{#ifmultlang: }}{{#iflang: no |Norsk titel }}==

{{#iflang: no |Dette er en norsk tekst

Og her kommer en header på norsk}} {{#iflang: en |Secret stuff for english speakers

this is a header in English}}

{{#iflang: en |English heading }}{{#iflang: no |Norsk titel }}


All messages and how to set them Special:AllMessages

SimpleSecurity - removed error message MediaWiki:Security-info (left as blank page)

Using the inclusion of Special:RecentChanges or Special:Newpages for recent changes

No changes during the given period matching these criteria.

or

Inclusion of pages works shrough {{:Name_of_page}} for pages from the main namespace, otherwise from Template:Name_of_page

Links to changes - % why don't they work? - Links work in MediaWiki:Sidebar

  • currentevents-url|currentevents
  • recentchanges-url|Recent changes
  • randompage-url|randompage
  • TrackRecord|TrackChanges

See Talk:MediaWiki Tips for information on dynamic sidebars

Nicely described by Chris Koerner in using the MediaWiki environment that we use to document stuff.¹ Lately I’ve been trying to figure out how to leverage the MediaWiki API and the External Data Extension to manipulate data from external sources and content within the wiki. http://clkoerner.com/tag/mediawiki/

Design

Mediawiki Design lists cool designs suggestions. We are using the GuMax Design, and our package can be downloaded from Media:GuMax-UNIK.tar.gz