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Brianna Laugher
August 06, 2009
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MediaWiki/Wikimedia tech infrastructure
Presented at GLAM-WIKI conference 2009.
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August 06, 2009
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Transcript
MediaWiki/Wikimedia tech infrastructure Brianna Laugher 6 August 2009 glam.wikimedia.org.au
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Linux Apache MySQL PHP
Add new <wikisyntax /> Or add new [[Special:Specialpage]] (reports) Extensions
API http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
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(Diagram is for 1.10, April 2007; latest release is 1.15)
Images/files
Revisions (edits)
Templates, categories & links
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Categories
Categories
Categories
Categories from templates!
Templates “Boilerplate” – no parameters Licenses Stub markers
Templates “Infobox” – parameters (key-value pairs)
Templates {{Information}} – Wikimedia Commons {{Information |description= |date= |source= |author=
|permission= }}
Templates
Templates
Templates
Users “Anonymous”/IP: Can read Can edit
Users “Anonymous”/IP (Registered) User: Can create new page Can upload
files Can move
Users “Anonymous”/IP (Registered) User Administrator/Sysop: Can (un)delete Can (un)block Can
(un)protect Can edit protected pages Typically elected by the community
Users “Anonymous”/IP (Registered) User Administrator/Sysop Bureaucrat: Can create administrators Typically
elected by the community
Credits GLAM-WIKI logo - © Wikimedia Foundation. MediaWiki logo –
public domain. Database schema – by Nick Jenkins. GFDL/GPL. Continuous copper casting disc – by Alchemist- hp. CC-BY-SA-DE-3.0. MediaWiki screenshots – MediaWiki is licensed under the GPL. Everything else is © Brianna Laugher & licensed CC-BY-SA-3.0.
Thank you!
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http://brianna.modernthings.org