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Explore the Diverse Range of
Blog Pages on MediaWiki

WikiTeq offers a wide range of blog pages, each with its unique content and insight. Explore and discover the wealth of knowledge offered and become a professional at managing your wiki!

Using the MediaWiki API

MediaWiki provides a very versatile API that can do almost everything that the user interface allows, and in some cases even more! Here, we walk you through how to interact with a wiki’s API in a few ways.

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Daniel Scherzer

Semantic MediaWiki Tutorial

This blog explains in a simple language, with examples, how to give additional context and meaning to MediaWiki content using Semantic MediaWiki.

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Enterprise MediaWiki Conference 2023

What I wish I had known when I started with enterprise MediaWiki.

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Daniel Scherzer

MediaWiki Scripts, Styles, Gadgets, and Widgets

Modules, gadgets, and widgets are powerful tools for extending the functionality and usability of your MediaWiki site and creating a more engaging and interactive experience for your users.

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Daniel Scherzer

Ads on MediaWiki

In this post, we'll discuss how to run and deliver ads to a MediaWiki site, whether ads are good or bad, how to choose the right ad network, and what requirements may apply to placing and formatting ads on a wiki page.

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Migration from Microsoft SharePoint to MediaWiki

Microsoft SharePoint and MediaWiki are two different types of platforms with different purposes. Is there something that can make knowledge creators and owners migrate from SharePoint to MediaWiki? Is such migration technically possible?

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Setting Up a Local Wiki

If you are considering adopting the MediaWiki software, you may want to experiment with a local wiki before making the final decision. Here, we walk you through how to create a wiki on your own computer running the latest stable version of MediaWiki, 1.39, for you to play around with.

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Daniel Scherzer

Introduction to MediaWiki Extensions

The MediaWiki software is designed to be extended, and extensions have multiple points to connect with the core software to add new features.

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Daniel Scherzer

MediaWiki Citations and References

MediaWiki provides a simple syntax and easy to use tools for creating inline citations and lists of references.

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WikiTeq

MediaWiki VisualEditor

MediaWiki VisualEditor is a user-friendly rich-text editor for MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia search results.

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Migrating from Confluence to Mediawiki

While migrating content from Confluence to MediaWiki is difficult, that complexity should never be a factor as long as WikiTeq is in the marketplace.

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WikiTeq

What are MediaWiki templates?

This post will explain why MediaWiki templates are important, when and how we use them.

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WikiTeq

Comparing the benefits and drawbacks of Semantic MediaWiki, Cargo, and Wikibase

Each of these tools has its own unique benefits and drawbacks, and the article provides hints for choosing the right one for your project.

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Using MediaWiki for Business

Talking about use cases for MediaWiki in a business environment and busting the most common myths about MediaWiki.

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What are MediaWiki Namespaces, Categories, Pages, and Sub-Pages

In this blog you will learn what are namespaces, categories, pages, and subpages in MediaWiki, and how they all interact.

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The Best MediaWiki Extensions

This blog covers various popular and useful MediaWiki extensions. It provides information on importing data, embedding video, using maps, and much more.

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Staying Updated on Wiki Changes

When your wiki has hundreds or thousands of pages, it is important to have a way to follow up changes made by the numerous wiki contributors.

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How to Manage Wiki User Rights

In MediaWiki, users that visit your site and perform various actions belong to one or more user groups. A group has rights/permissions that specify what the users in that group are allowed to do on the site.

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How To Create A Wiki Account

Depending on the purpose of your wiki, different account creation policies may apply. We will go over the various policies in this blog.

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How To Display Images on a Wiki Page

Techniques for inserting images and creating galleries in visual editor, or using MediaWiki markup.

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How to Rename a Wiki Page

Page name is very important in MediaWiki, since pages are usually linked by their names. When you want to rename a page, MediaWiki has to take care about all links to the page that may exist in the database.

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History of Revisions of a Wiki Page

MediaWiki stores each and every revision of any page in the database. Looking at page history one can see who did what, and when.

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Choosing a Responsive MediaWiki Skin

If you're about to start your own MediaWiki project or spice up an existing wiki, some of the following points may be helpful. We will talk about "skins" - freely distributed sets of code and resources - that will determine the appearance of MediaWiki.

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How To Upload Files To Your Wiki

Uploading files to a wiki is a fairly straightforward process.

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How To Create a MediaWiki Page

In this blog we will go over the various ways you can create new MediaWiki pages.

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How To Use MediaWiki VisualEditor

What is VisualEditor? The VisualEditor extension allows for editing pages as rich content (WYSIWYG) rather than using wiki markup. Editing in the visual editor is very similar to the editing in any office application, like Word or Writer.

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Cargo vs Semantic MediaWiki vs Wikibase

Semantic MediaWiki is the most popular software for managing the data and knowledge of your wiki, but there are alternatives.

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MediaWiki vs Confluence: Which collaboration tool is better?

Teams will always face the task of organizing valuable information, and oftentimes they're choosing between two popular options: MediaWiki and Atlassian Confluence.

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