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= MediaWiki = | = MediaWiki = | ||
'''MediaWiki''' is the software that powers websites like [[Wikipedia]] and, more modestly, various [[wiki]]s that we run or where we collaborate. | '''MediaWiki''' is the software that powers websites like [[Wikipedia]] and, more modestly, various [[wiki]]s that we run or where we collaborate. In particular, it powers ''this''([[laussy.org]]) website. | ||
Unless you care about the underlying technical details, there is little to know about MediaWiki, but that it is managed by Wikimedia [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home], a foundation that maintains and develops the work. | Unless you care about the underlying technical details, there is little to know about MediaWiki, but that it is managed by Wikimedia [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home], a foundation that maintains and develops the work. Besides, this is worth knowing only for the pun on ''media'' and ''wiki'' to make up both the organization and its product. | ||
If you care, read on. | This page is ''not'' about the [[wiki]] itself, which is the language to feed MediaWiki with. | ||
If you care about the software, read on. | |||
== Principle == | == Principle == | ||
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* [[MediaWiki's Google maps]] to implement [[Google maps]]. | * [[MediaWiki's Google maps]] to implement [[Google maps]]. | ||
* [[Blog:Hacks/mp3_files_in_mediawiki_without_flash|mp3 player]] with [[html]]5. | |||
* [[Blog:Notes/Mediawiki_Extension_News|News]] to announce noteworthy changes in our [[news]]. | * [[Blog:Notes/Mediawiki_Extension_News|News]] to announce noteworthy changes in our [[news]]. | ||
=== My | === My extensions === | ||
* [[wz]]: Walter Zorn's tooltips for MediaWiki. | * [[wz]]: Walter Zorn's tooltips for MediaWiki. | ||
* [[BlogList]]: My revival of [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilog Wikilog] for recent versions (1.43 in my case) of MediaWiki. | |||
=== Tuning and hacks === | === Tuning and hacks === | ||
MediaWiki is the software that powers websites like Wikipedia and, more modestly, various wikis that we run or where we collaborate. In particular, it powers this(laussy.org) website.
Unless you care about the underlying technical details, there is little to know about MediaWiki, but that it is managed by Wikimedia [1], a foundation that maintains and develops the work. Besides, this is worth knowing only for the pun on media and wiki to make up both the organization and its product.
This page is not about the wiki itself, which is the language to feed MediaWiki with.
If you care about the software, read on.
This is a long process that dispatch data back and forth from the database and format the output to the screen.
This page is still largely in progress.