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(a)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(a)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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