<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>13</revnumber><date>2020-01-24 11:40:30</date><authorinitials>JosephNuthalapati</authorinitials><revremark>Add screenshot of editor toolbar</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2020-01-24 11:38:30</date><authorinitials>JosephNuthalapati</authorinitials><revremark>Mention the default wiki editor in &quot;Editing Wiki content&quot;</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2020-01-21 08:09:53</date><authorinitials>fioddor</authorinitials><revremark>Customization section moved at the end because the others are more generic.</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2020-01-18 09:41:15</date><authorinitials>JosephNuthalapati</authorinitials><revremark>Add customization section</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2018-08-28 09:42:01</date><authorinitials>JosephNuthalapati</authorinitials><revremark>Remove internal links to MediaWiki</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2018-08-27 23:58:16</date><authorinitials>JamesValleroy</authorinitials><revremark>try to close last section</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2018-08-27 23:43:48</date><authorinitials>JamesValleroy</authorinitials><revremark>add consistent newlines after headings</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2018-08-27 23:41:37</date><authorinitials>JamesValleroy</authorinitials><revremark>spelling</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2018-08-21 07:33:32</date><authorinitials>JosephNuthalapati</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2018-08-21 07:32:43</date><authorinitials>JosephNuthalapati</authorinitials><revremark>Update wiki to include new features</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2018-01-31 06:02:30</date><authorinitials>SunilMohanAdapa</authorinitials><revremark>Add footer and category</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2018-01-17 10:26:45</date><authorinitials>JosephNuthalapati</authorinitials><revremark>Fix headings</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2018-01-13 04:01:22</date><authorinitials>JosephNuthalapati</authorinitials><revremark>New wiki entry for MediaWiki on FreedomBox</revremark></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Wiki (MediaWiki)</title><section><title>About MediaWiki</title><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/MediaWiki#">MediaWiki</ulink> is the software that powers the Wikimedia suite of wikis. </para><para>Read more about MediaWiki on <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki">Wikipedia</ulink> </para><para><emphasis role="strong">Available since:</emphasis>  version 0.20.0 </para></section><section><title>MediaWiki on FreedomBox</title><para>MediaWiki on FreedomBox is configured to be publicly readable and privately editable. Only logged in users can make edits to the wiki. This configuration prevents spam and vandalism on the wiki. </para><section><title>User management</title><para>Users can be created by the MediaWiki administrator (user &quot;admin&quot;) only. The &quot;admin&quot; user can also be used to reset passwords of MediaWiki users. The administrator password, if forgotten can be reset anytime from the MediaWiki app page in web interface. </para></section><section><title>Use cases</title><para>MediaWiki is quite versatile and can be put to many creative uses. It also comes with a lot of plugins and themes and is highly customizable. </para><section><title>Personal Knowledge Repository</title><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>MediaWiki on FreedomBox can be your own personal knowledge repository. Since MediaWiki has good multimedia support, you can write notes, store images, create checklists, store references and bookmarks etc. in an organized manner. You can store the knowledge of a lifetime in your MediaWiki instance. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Community Wiki</title><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>A community of users can use MediaWiki as their common repository of knowledge and reference material. It can used as a college notice board, documentation server for a small company, common notebook for study groups or as a fan wiki like wikia. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Personal Wiki-based Website</title><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para><ulink url="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki/en">Several websites</ulink> on the internet are simply MediaWiki instances. MediaWiki on FreedomBox is read-only to visitors. Hence, it can be adapted to serve as your personal website and/or blog. MediaWiki content is easy to export and can be later moved to use another blog engine. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section></section><section><title>Editing Wiki Content</title><para>The MediaWiki installation on FreedomBox ships with a basic editor with a toolbar for common options like Bold, Italics etc. Click on the Advanced section for more options like Headings, bullet lists etc. </para><para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=mediawiki-toolbar.png"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>mediawiki-toolbar.png</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> </para><section><title>Visual Editor</title><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>MediaWiki's new Visual Editor gives a WYSIWYG user interface to creating wiki pages. This is still a Beta feature and is not provided by default with MediaWiki. A workaround is to use write your content using the Visual Editor in <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox">Wikipedia's Sandbox</ulink>, switching to source editing mode and copying the content into your wiki. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Other Formats</title><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>You don't have to necessarily learn the MediaWiki formatting language. You can write in your favorite format (Markdown, Org-mode, LaTeX etc.) and convert it to the MediaWiki format using <ulink url="https://pandoc.org/try/">Pandoc</ulink>. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Image Uploads</title><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>Image uploads have been enabled since FreedomBox version 0.36.0. You can also directly use images from Wikimedia Commons using a feature called <ulink url="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons">Instant Commons</ulink>. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section></section><section><title>Customization</title><section><title>Skins</title><para>MediaWiki's default skin is usually Vector. The default skin set by FreedomBox is Timeless.  </para><para>Vector is a skin best-suited for viewing on desktop browsers. It is not suitable for mobile screen sizes. Wikimedia sites host a separate mobile site. It is not worth hosting a separate mobile site for small MediaWiki installations like those on FreedomBox. Using a mobile-friendly skin like Timeless is a cheaper way of solving the problem. </para><para>Administrators can choose a default skin from the app configuration. Users of the site also have the choice of viewing it with a different skin. </para><!--rule (<hr>) is not applicable to DocBook--><informaltable><tgroup cols="8"><colspec colname="col_0"/><colspec colname="col_1"/><colspec colname="col_2"/><colspec colname="col_3"/><colspec colname="col_4"/><colspec colname="col_5"/><colspec colname="col_6"/><colspec colname="col_7"/><tbody><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong">Information</emphasis></para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"/><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"/><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong">Support</emphasis></para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong">Contribute</emphasis></para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"/><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong">Reports</emphasis></para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong">Promote</emphasis></para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Introduction#">Overview</ulink>      </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Hardware#">Hardware</ulink>      </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong"> </emphasis></para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Support#">Live Help</ulink>     </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Contribute#">Where To Start</ulink>     </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Translate#">Translate</ulink>    </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls#">Calls</ulink>      </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations#">Talks</ulink>     </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Features#">Features</ulink>     </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Vision#">Vision</ulink>     </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong"> </emphasis></para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/QuestionsAndAnswers#">Q&amp;A</ulink>      </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Design#">Design</ulink>      </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/TODO#">To Do</ulink>      </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/ReleaseNotes#">Releases</ulink>       </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Press#">Press</ulink>     </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Download#">Download</ulink>     </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Manual#">Manual</ulink>      </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong"> </emphasis></para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"/><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Contribute/Code#">Code</ulink>      </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Contributors#">Contributors</ulink>      </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"/><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/MediaWiki/FreedomBox/Blog#">Blog</ulink>     </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" nameend="col_1" namest="col_0" rowsep="1"><para> <ulink url="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FreedomBox_for_Communities">FreedomBox for Communities</ulink> </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"/><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"/><entry colsep="1" nameend="col_5" namest="col_4" rowsep="1"><para> <ulink url="https://docs.freedombox.org">FreedomBox Developer Manual</ulink> </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"/><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"/></row></tbody></tgroup></informaltable><para><!--"~-smaller-~" is not applicable to DocBook-->HELP &amp; 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