Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
We’re really pleased to have launched a fully redesigned responsive MediaWiki skin for PetroWiki.org on behalf of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. The website, based on the MediaWiki platform, and provides an online, interactive handbook for petroleum engineers around the world to maintain their industrial knowledge and share best practice. We totally redesigned PetroWiki.org to… Read more »
Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
We had a request recently from a client of our MediaWiki training course for a MediaWiki cheatsheet to help them remember the various syntaxes for different formatting options in MediaWiki. This MediaWiki cheatsheet provides a guide to basic MediaWiki formatting, from making text bold and italic to inserting images in to your MediaWiki articles. Basic… Read more »
Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
One of our MediaWiki clients wanted us to blank all of the content within their wiki, so they can start their annually recurring project from scratch on the same platform as last year. Here’s how we blanked all content in their MediaWiki: Access your wiki’s database administration tool (we tend to use phpMyAdmin). Ensure you’ve… Read more »
Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
Part of dealing with open source software is being part of the community, and as MediaWiki is a large part of the work we do, I spend at least a few minutes most days looking at mwusers.com, the unofficial MediaWiki form. One query that popped up today was this one, which asked about the use… Read more »
Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
Have you ever looked at a Wikipedia article, or at online documentation for a product or service you’ve purchased online? Chances are you’ve looked at a wiki, even if you haven’t realised it! Simply, a wiki is system that allows many people to collaboratively edit content online. In the case of Wikipedia, the wiki’s users… Read more »
Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
MediaWiki SEO: is your wiki website underperforming in search engines? There are many reasons your MediaWiki installation can be lower in search engine rankings than you’d like, but the SEO tips below are a great place to start to ensure search engines such as Google and Bing can index your content correctly. MediaWiki & SEO… Read more »
Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
A client for a recent MediaWiki consultancy project of ours wanted to export all user email addresses as text from MediaWiki as part of an audit trail they were required to comply with. This isn’t quite as simple as it sounds; many fields in the MediaWiki users table are in the BLOb (Binary Large Object)… Read more »
Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
It is not many days – or for that matter, weeks, months or years – that you’re asked to help plan a town centre, but that’s what Richard Carter Consultancy Ltd was asked to do recently. In conjunction with our sister company, the North East web design agency Peacock Carter, we’re proud to launch our… Read more »
Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
MediaWiki. It sounds familiar, doesn’t it? That’s probably because it powers the world’s largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and thousands of other websites. This introduction to the open source MediaWiki software is aimed as a gentle guide to its core features, and its potential uses. If you’d like to know more about open source software in… Read more »
Articles about MediaWiki, the open source wiki platform, including latest release news, exciting extensions, comparisons with other wiki software platforms and MediaWiki skin showcases too.
Another year, and another MediaWiki upgrade project completed, this time for a client in America. We recently finished upgrading a large MediaWiki installation from MediaWiki 1.11 to 1.17, but MediaWiki version 1.18 is now, in our view, stable enough to be upgrade their MediaWiki installation from version 1.11 to 1.18, especially with the impending release… Read more »