MediaWiki

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MediaWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is a feature-rich wiki implementation, and is used to run Wikipedia as well as many other wikis. This website runs on MediaWiki.

1 Installation
2 Formatting

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Installation

Download, upload, decompress, change permissions, edit htaccess, create database, go through install page, configure

Read me notes before install: http://www.intermakers.com/wiki/INSTALL

Download from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.5beta4.tar.gz?download

To change the logo change the LocalSettings.php setting for the logo image path (found in $wgLogo).

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Formatting

Most text formatting is usually done with Wiki markup, so people don't have to learn HTML.

For a full writeup on all the markup tags visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_edit_a_page#Wiki_markup

The wiki can accept some HTML tags directly, but most people use the built-in markup language, which is designed for ease of editing.

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Bold and italics

The most commonly used wiki tags are bold and italics. Bolding and italicizing is done by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes ('):

''italics'' appears as italics. (2 apostrophes on either side)
'''bold''' appears as bold. (3 apostrophes on either side)
'''''bolded italics''''' appears as bolded italics. (2 + 3 = 5 apostrophes on either side)

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Headings and subheadings

Headings and subheadings are an easy way to improve the organization of an article. If you can see two or more distinct topics being discussed, you can break up the article by inserting a heading for each section.

Headings can be created like this:

==Top level heading== (2 equals signs)
===Subheading=== (3 equals signs)
====Another level down==== (4 equals signs)

If an article has at least four headings, a table of contents will automatically be generated. It will be added automatically to the table of contents for the page, assuming three others already exist.

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