The only book available that I know of is 'MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide' by Mizanur Rahman. It is from Packt Publishing (actually a pdf download that you can print out). www.packtpub.com It is pretty good and gives you some 'basics' that help to start *thinking* wiki.
When you installed your wiki you were prompted for a admin password. This is what you want to use. Once you are in the admin user you can change a user rights.
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nelson A Li Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:39 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Cc: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page?
Hello,
SOS! Anybody please help.
1. I got a page exported but could not import because I need to create a
"sysop" group user to import. But, it seems that I could not figure out
how to create this "sysop" group" and an user in that group. Can somebody waste a little time to help a new comer?
2. Eventhough I know that there are two camps of user IDs (one for wiki
usage and one for mysql). I still get confused when reading the reference documentation. It seems that people take it for granted assuming everybody is able to distinguish which camp of user IDs they are talking
about.
3. Is there a good mediawiki book that I can find examples for basic (e.g. creating a page, edit a page, setting directory & files permissions, how
to incorporate an extension...) operations? Of course if there is a comprehensive list of mediawiki commands (I mean .php files) and their usages will be even better.
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I think what you are looking for is the Export/Import.
In your wiki if you enter Special:Export in the search edit line you will get a page where you can enter individual page names or enter a category to get a list of pages for that category. Then Export will generate a big XML page which you could save to a file.
Then to imnport to a wiki use Special:Import and enter (or select) the file from disk. This will read the xml in and build the page(s).
Is this what you are looking for?
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nelson A Li Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 11:07 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page?
Hello Mediawiki experts,
Looks like I am too new to converse in the right terminology. Sounds like the right name for "copy" is "export & import". However, no body cares to share a little more about the details of 'export/import". I assume it is too trivial to do that. But, somehow it seems that "export/import" is not that trivial after all. There was another message mentioned "OpenOffice.org does mediswiki wikitext export". Does that mean this export (/import?) function is not a media extention? do I need to install another software package (OOo2.3.0) and learn how to use it together with mediawiki?
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Hello,
I have posted the following question to the support desk. Then I thought it may be faster to get answers to send this message out:
I am running mediawiki 1.10.1 with php-5.2.4 and MySQL 4.1.20. I need to duplicate a page from another site in my company but my site can not reach
because of firewall configuration. The page copy only worked for wikitext
but not tables and forms.
I looked through all help information. It seems that mediawiki provides
page move, merge, rename and wikitext copy features. But it converts tables, inputboxes and submit buttons into paragraphs.
Can someone confirm my doubts or explain to me how to copy pages? Thank
you.
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