MediaWiki Getting Started

Table of Contents

Basic Usage

1.	How do I create a new page
	There are several paths to creating a new page: Create a link to the page on another page, then click on the red link which appears Browse to the intended location of the page, e.g. http://www.foowiki.org/index.php?title=New_page and click on the edit link.

1.	How to create a new template
	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates#Creating.2C_editing_and_using_templates

You start a new template in the same way you would start a normal page. The only difference is that its title must start with Template:.

Template:foo to edit it. To get there, type in the URL to your address bar, search for it, or make a link in the sandbox and click on it.

1.	How to rename a page
	Help:Moving a page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Renaming_%28moving%29_a_page
2.	Most frequent wiki markup
	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Most_frequent_wiki_markup_explained

Here are the 6 most frequently used types of wiki markup. If you need more help see Wikitext examples. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples

1.	Practice editing
	Before start editing a MediaWiki page, you'd better experiment editing in the sandbox http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Sandbox
2.	How to create a user
	Execute maintenance/createAndPromote.php from the shell.

$ php maintenance/createAndPromote.php —help Please provide a username and password for the new account.

$ php maintenance/createAndPromote.php auto_import p wikidb-kb_: Creating and promoting User:auto_import…done.

How do I reset a password

You can use the maintenance/changePassword.php maintenance script to reset a user's password.

php maintenance/changePassword.php --user=someuser --password=somepass