Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that the 2nd edition of my MediaWiki reference book, "Working with MediaWiki", has been released. This is the only MediaWiki reference book published since 2010, as far as I know, so it's the de facto authoritative reference for MediaWiki - other than the contents of mediawiki.org.
"Working with MediaWiki" was first released in 2012, and an updated version was released in 2014, but this is the official 2nd edition.
Changes in this 2nd edition include: - A new foreword by Daniel Robbins, founder of Gentoo Linux and Funtoo Linux - Much of the content on Semantic MediaWiki was replaced by content on the Cargo extension, which I think is now the better solution for data storage - Lots of other updated content to handle the various changes to the software in the last three years.
The biggest change, though, is that the book is now available for free online. Given MediaWiki's presence in both the open source and "open knowledge" worlds, I'm excited to have this book be similarly freely available.
It's also still available (at cost), though, in printed and e-book forms. If this were six months from now, I would say that the book makes a great holiday gift, but instead I'll say that it makes for great beach reading.
You can read more about "Working with MediaWiki" here:
http://workingwithmediawiki.com
And the entire book can now be viewed here:
http://workingwithmediawiki.com/book
-Yaron
Having purchased and read the first edition, I highly recommend this book. It's nice to see it updated and now free. Thanks Yaron! I'll definitely be purchasing, as I know how difficult writing is.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Yaron Koren yaron@wikiworks.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that the 2nd edition of my MediaWiki reference book, "Working with MediaWiki", has been released. This is the only MediaWiki reference book published since 2010, as far as I know, so it's the de facto authoritative reference for MediaWiki - other than the contents of mediawiki.org.
"Working with MediaWiki" was first released in 2012, and an updated version was released in 2014, but this is the official 2nd edition.
Changes in this 2nd edition include:
- A new foreword by Daniel Robbins, founder of Gentoo Linux and Funtoo Linux
- Much of the content on Semantic MediaWiki was replaced by content on the
Cargo extension, which I think is now the better solution for data storage
- Lots of other updated content to handle the various changes to the
software in the last three years.
The biggest change, though, is that the book is now available for free online. Given MediaWiki's presence in both the open source and "open knowledge" worlds, I'm excited to have this book be similarly freely available.
It's also still available (at cost), though, in printed and e-book forms. If this were six months from now, I would say that the book makes a great holiday gift, but instead I'll say that it makes for great beach reading.
You can read more about "Working with MediaWiki" here:
http://workingwithmediawiki.com
And the entire book can now be viewed here:
http://workingwithmediawiki.com/book
-Yaron
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This book sounds like it may end up on my summer reading least, or at least as reference material on my bookshelf. (There are times when I prefer physical books to digital ones.) Thanks!
Pine
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Bill Traynor btraynor@gmail.com wrote:
Having purchased and read the first edition, I highly recommend this book. It's nice to see it updated and now free. Thanks Yaron! I'll definitely be purchasing, as I know how difficult writing is.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Yaron Koren yaron@wikiworks.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that the 2nd edition of my MediaWiki reference
book,
"Working with MediaWiki", has been released. This is the only MediaWiki reference book published since 2010, as far as I know, so it's the de
facto
authoritative reference for MediaWiki - other than the contents of mediawiki.org.
"Working with MediaWiki" was first released in 2012, and an updated
version
was released in 2014, but this is the official 2nd edition.
Changes in this 2nd edition include:
- A new foreword by Daniel Robbins, founder of Gentoo Linux and Funtoo
Linux
- Much of the content on Semantic MediaWiki was replaced by content on
the
Cargo extension, which I think is now the better solution for data
storage
- Lots of other updated content to handle the various changes to the
software in the last three years.
The biggest change, though, is that the book is now available for free online. Given MediaWiki's presence in both the open source and "open knowledge" worlds, I'm excited to have this book be similarly freely available.
It's also still available (at cost), though, in printed and e-book forms. If this were six months from now, I would say that the book makes a great holiday gift, but instead I'll say that it makes for great beach reading.
You can read more about "Working with MediaWiki" here:
http://workingwithmediawiki.com
And the entire book can now be viewed here:
http://workingwithmediawiki.com/book
-Yaron
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I bought the older O'Reilly book a few years ago (ten? sheesh, I'm getting old) when I setup my terminals wiki.
Obviously this book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one otherwise if someone has read them both.
Thanks.
I've owned and read them both. The o'reilly book was great when it came out. I still occasionally use the fold out markup cheat sheet that came with it. But Yaron's first book came at a time when MediaWiki had really moved forward, and it would appear that this new revision is doing the same.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Richard legalize@xmission.com wrote:
I bought the older O'Reilly book a few years ago (ten? sheesh, I'm getting old) when I setup my terminals wiki.
Obviously this book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one otherwise if someone has read them both.
Thanks.
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