Dear all,
I'm completely new to mediawiki software and I even don't know if this is the correct place to post my question (sorry if not).
We want to setup a wiki (based on mediawiki software) to host a collection of books for an educational institution. We have just succesfully installed mediawiki (http://disi.unal.edu.co/wikiapuntes/index.php) and we thought it would be better to configure it to look more than wikibooks than wikipedia (which seems its default configuration), i.e., to configure it to have the special structure http://en.wikibooks.org has (with subject, books, modules, etc. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page_or_book) rather than a mere collection of articles.
I just don't know how to twick it: is it an extension? is it a configuration option? Or is it simply the way pages are edited (meaning that pages=articles=modules)? Or something else?
I have googled a lot without success; all the information that I got regards the wikibooks site itself rather than how to set up it.
Any hint is really appreciated. Thanks in advanced!
-- Jean Pierre
-----Original Message-----From: Jean Pierre Charalambos Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:03 PM
I just don't know how to twick it: is it an extension? is it a configuration option? Or is it simply the way pages are edited (meaning that pages=articles=modules)? Or something else? -- Jean Pierre
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Hi Jean Pierre,
It looks like most of the formatting you would like to mimic from Wikibooks is just the way they have edited. You can use the view source tab (where the edit button usually is in a wiki you are logged in to) to see what they have written. I would suggest looking through some of Wikipedia's basic editing guides to get an idea what you are looking at, but on the wiki books front page some things I think you might like pointed out are: __NOTOC__ this tells the wiki you do not want to use a table of contents like the blue boxes Wikipedia uses. {{Main Page introduction}} with the curly braces around this it tells the wiki to transclude, or pull in the content, of the page whose title is between the braces I doubt that you have any sister projects yet, so you shouldn't worry about that section.
I don't know if you have figured out how to change your icon, but that is a setting in the LocalSettings.php file.
Good luck! -Courtney
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