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What is this?

This is a wiki. A wiki is a website that users can edit. In order to edit it, you have to log in. Once you're logged in, you can edit pages by clicking the "Edit" link in the tabs at the upper-right corner of each page.

Wikitext

Wiki pages use special markup to set off internal links, boldface, italic text, and so forth. See Editing Help for more details. When you edit, there is also a toolbar at the top-left corner of the edit window which simplifies the markup: just select the text you want to modify, and then click on the appropriate buttons. The button icons can be a little cryptic- hovering over the buttons for a few seconds causes a text explanation of the button to pop up. You can get a feel for what the various markup options do by comparing the source text (the text within the edit window) to that displayed above the edit window. If you've made changes, hit the "Preview" button to see what you did. Remember to hit "Save changes" every so often, or your work will be lost!

Don't worry

Edit without fear. This wiki has version control! If you make a mistake or do something wrong, your changes can always be reverted. With that said, don't be a jerk. Admins have ban-hammers, and we're not afraid to use them.

Where should I start?

If you're just reading, start at the Main Page. If you're editing, and you don't already know where you want to start, here are a few suggestions:

Special:Categories

Many of the pages in this wiki are organized into so-called categories. A page can have more than one category. There is a special category called for pages which are known to be incomplete.

You can add a page to a category simply by putting a link to the category on the page like so: [[Category:Help]]

Special pages

Special:SpecialPages pages are another place to look for editing opportunities. Orphan pages and broken redirects need to be fixed, among other things.

Maintenance info

System Log

2013-09-14

--Mfoster (talk) 09:46, 14 September 2013 (PDT)

I installed the Widgets extension along with these two widgets:

2013-07-20

Discovered the logo wasn't appearing. Found in the old folder and copied over like so...

mdf@dynamo:/var/www/servers/freegeekseattle.org/wiki$ rsync -av \
../mediawiki-1.20.2/skins/common/images/customLogo.gif  skins/common/images/

2013-06-28

Mfoster (talk) 20:45, 28 June 2013 (PDT)

Just upgraded mediawiki from 1.20.2 -> 1.20.6

Here is the transcript for future upgrades. Literally takes just 1-2 minutes when it goes well.

 394  cd /var/www/servers/freegeekseattle.org/
 ...
 402  tar xzvf /tmp/mediawiki-1.20.6.tar.gz
 403  rm wiki
 404  ln -s mediawiki-1.20.6 wiki
 405  cd mediawiki-1.20.2/
 406  cp LocalSettings.php ../wiki/
 407  cp -a images  ../wiki/
 408  cp -a extensions ../wiki/
 409  cd ../wiki
 ...
 411  cd maintenance/
 412  php update.php