Wikitechnic

How does it work?



This school collects and studies interesting wiki-technologies; Participants are to gain a working knowledge of the engines which support this Wikiversity, to develop enhancement of them, and to understand how to break wikiversity apart and rebuild it from its components. For topics specific to the MediaWiki engine, please visit also Topic:MediaWiki.

MediaWiki technology

 * special:version - ("how is wikiversity configured?")
 * MediaWiki engine/index.php - ("How is this page generated?")
 * MediaWiki engine/Parser.php - ("How does it convert my contributions to HTML?")
 * the quiz extension: help:quiz, mw:extension:quiz
 * dynamic page list
 * subpage list mw:extension:subpage list 3
 * migration to the new preprocessor

robots

 * User:HagermanBot - the robot which keeps the archives of the colloquium
 * pywikipedia - interwikibots et. al.
 * Auto wiki browser

dynamics contents and templates

 * generating dynamic contents
 * topic:templates
 * meta:help:templates
 * meta:help:ParserFunctions
 * wikiversity blogs
 * wikiversity feeds
 * Main page learning project

css and javascripts

 * Naviagation frames
 * javascript gadgets
 * mediawiki:common.js
 * mediawiki:common.css
 * meta:User:Pathoschild/Scripts/AJAX transclusion table
 * special:gadgets/mediawiki:gadgets-definition

technologies for custodial works

 * How to merge history
 * various ways for protecting pages
 * What is cascading protection
 * Not just for custodians: script for mass revert : botwiki:python:revertAll.py - under development (it works)
 * blacklisting
 * Popups

others

 * IRC - (what is it? How does it work? How can I use it?)

external resources

 * http://sandboxserver.org/wiki

school news

 * 21:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC)