I am delighted to announce that my new book, "MediaWiki," has just been published by O'Reilly:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
To view the table of contents and index, see:
http://www.blazemonger.com/mwbook/tocindex.pdf (PDF file, 1 MB)
A huge THANK YOU to the mediawiki-l readers who were the technical reviewers for the book, for their careful reading and thoughtful suggestions:
- Brion Vibber - Rob Church - Jim R. Wilson - Shannon Bohle - JP Vossen
-- Dan Barrett, dbarrett@oreilly.com Author, MEDIAWIKI: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
That's Great!
Techman224, techman224@yahoo.ca On 21-Oct-08, at 7:42 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
I am delighted to announce that my new book, "MediaWiki," has just been published by O'Reilly:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
To view the table of contents and index, see:
http://www.blazemonger.com/mwbook/tocindex.pdf (PDF file, 1 MB)
A huge THANK YOU to the mediawiki-l readers who were the technical reviewers for the book, for their careful reading and thoughtful suggestions:
- Brion Vibber
- Rob Church
- Jim R. Wilson
- Shannon Bohle
- JP Vossen
-- Dan Barrett, dbarrett@oreilly.com Author, MEDIAWIKI: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Congratulations! I'm new here so didn't know about the book previously but even withuot seeing it, it must be good to be O'Reilly'd.
Nice one
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Barrett Sent: 22 October 2008 01:43 To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Daniel Barrett Subject: [Mediawiki-l] ANNOUNCE: MediaWiki book published by O'Reilly
I am delighted to announce that my new book, "MediaWiki," has just been published by O'Reilly:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
To view the table of contents and index, see:
http://www.blazemonger.com/mwbook/tocindex.pdf (PDF file, 1 MB)
A huge THANK YOU to the mediawiki-l readers who were the technical reviewers for the book, for their careful reading and thoughtful suggestions:
- Brion Vibber - Rob Church - Jim R. Wilson - Shannon Bohle - JP Vossen
-- Dan Barrett, dbarrett@oreilly.com Author, MEDIAWIKI: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
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Dear all, Please help me below issues: I have been using FCK editor in my office environment. But the problem is user’s wants to use wiki like msword…they do not like wiki tags since its too complex for general users specially old guys (such as making table, attaching picture, changing the font color, resize the font size etc using mediawiki standard edit tool ). They want simply copy pest their word; excel contents into wiki edit box or want to make doc using msword's tools facility which is not possible in the fck editor as well as in built in wiki editor. But yahoo mail has that feature. If we enable yahoo mail’s rich text editor facility and copy pest word or any webpage contents over there its showing in the output what we have pesetd even in the main fck editors web page (demo: http://www.fckeditor.net/demo/language) also showing but when we incorporate fck editor into the mediawiki the copy pest feature is not working. Has any body suggest me any solution or any extension or any techniques where I can copy pest my word contents directly and it will show in the wiki page what I have pested? (I have tested openoffice mediawiki converter facility also but the solution is not practical since I need to install this softwrae in everyones pc but that is not possible since we are using msword as well still there is tag problem) Any input would be appreciated. Regards, -Towfiq
Hi Mr. T.,
I would suggest trying OpenOffice.org Writer is that is feasible. It is pretty close to word and you can export to wiki text and paste that directly into the wiki. I also saw an extension recently for exporting wiki text in ODF so that would make the whole circuit for you. You may want to do some custom development to make the transition easier, but several of my users that have really complex tables, for instance, love being able to edit them in an easy and familiar way in OO.org and then just pasting the output into the wiki. The only hang-up can be custom wiki-tags. We wrote a quick Special Page to remove the <nowiki> tags from our custom tags.
Good luck! -Courtney
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mohammad Towfiqul Islam Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:22 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Wysiwyg Editor
Dear all,
Please help me below issues:
I have been using FCK editor in my office environment. But the problem is user's wants to use wiki like msword...they do not like wiki tags since its too complex for general users specially old guys (such as making table, attaching picture, changing the font color, resize the font size etc using mediawiki standard edit tool ).
They want simply copy pest their word; excel contents into wiki edit box or want to make doc using msword's tools facility which is not possible in the fck editor as well as in built in wiki editor.
But yahoo mail has that feature. If we enable yahoo mail's rich text editor facility and copy pest word or any webpage contents over there its showing in the output what we have pesetd even in the main fck editors web page (demo: http://www.fckeditor.net/demo/language) also showing but when we incorporate fck editor into the mediawiki the copy pest feature is not working.
Has any body suggest me any solution or any extension or any techniques where I can copy pest my word contents directly and it will show in the wiki page what I have pested? (I have tested openoffice mediawiki converter facility also but the solution is not practical since I need to install this softwrae in everyones pc but that is not possible since we are using msword as well still there is tag problem)
Any input would be appreciated.
Regards, -Towfiq
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Daniel Barrett wrote:
I am delighted to announce that my new book, "MediaWiki," has just been published by O'Reilly:
Congratulations!
We've got a couple copies on our library shelf in the office now. :)
- -- brion
2008/10/22 Daniel Barrett dbarrett@oreilly.com:
I am delighted to announce that my new book, "MediaWiki," has just been published by O'Reilly: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
kewl :-) Will it be under a free licence at any time?
(Is this the second book on MediaWiki? We need a "Books" page on mediawiki.org ...)
- d.
On October 22, 2008, David Gerard wrote:
We need a "Books" page on mediawiki.org ...)
OK, I started one, listing the four books I've heard of, in alphabetical order. Feel free to add, edit, etc.....
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Books_about_MediaWiki
-- Dan Barrett, dbarrett@oreilly.com Author, MEDIAWIKI: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
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Daniel Barrett wrote:
On October 22, 2008, David Gerard wrote:
We need a "Books" page on mediawiki.org ...)
OK, I started one, listing the four books I've heard of, in alphabetical order. Feel free to add, edit, etc.....
Oooh, I'm curious to see the skins design one, we don't have a copy...
- -- brion
Is there any special discount codes for the book? I'm thinking of buying it. On 21-Oct-08, at 7:42 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
I am delighted to announce that my new book, "MediaWiki," has just been published by O'Reilly:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
To view the table of contents and index, see:
http://www.blazemonger.com/mwbook/tocindex.pdf (PDF file, 1 MB)
A huge THANK YOU to the mediawiki-l readers who were the technical reviewers for the book, for their careful reading and thoughtful suggestions:
- Brion Vibber
- Rob Church
- Jim R. Wilson
- Shannon Bohle
- JP Vossen
-- Dan Barrett, dbarrett@oreilly.com Author, MEDIAWIKI: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/
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It's about $10 cheaper on Amazon... http://www.amazon.com/MediaWiki-Daniel-J-Barrett/dp/0596519796/ref=sr_1_1?ie...
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