MediaWiki/Wikimedia tech infrastructure

Presented at GLAM-WIKI conference 2009.

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1. MediaWiki/Wikimedia
   tech infrastructure
   Brianna Laugher
   6 August 2009
   glam.wikimedia.org.au
   

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3. Linux
   Apache
   MySQL
   PHP
   

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4. Add new
   Or add new [[Special:Specialpage]]
   (reports)
   Extensions
   

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5. API
   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
   http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
   

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7. (Diagram is for
   1.10, April 2007;
   latest release is 1.15)
   

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8. Images/files
   

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9. Revisions (edits)
   

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10. Templates, categories & links
    

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12. Categories
    

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13. Categories
    

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14. Categories
    

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15. Categories
    from
    templates!
    

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16. Templates
    “Boilerplate” – no parameters
    Licenses
    Stub markers
    

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17. Templates
    “Infobox” – parameters
    (key-value pairs)
    

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18. Templates
    {{Information}} – Wikimedia Commons
    {{Information
    |description=
    |date=
    |source=
    |author=
    |permission=
    }}
    

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19. Templates
    

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20. Templates
    

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21. Templates
    

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22. Users
    “Anonymous”/IP:
    Can read
    Can edit
    

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23. Users
    “Anonymous”/IP
    (Registered) User:
    Can create new page
    Can upload files
    Can move
    

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24. 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
    

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25. Users
    “Anonymous”/IP
    (Registered) User
    Administrator/Sysop
    Bureaucrat:
    Can create administrators
    Typically elected by the community
    

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26. 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.
    

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27. Thank you!
    blaugher@wikimedia.org.au
    http://brianna.modernthings.org
    

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