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
3. Linux Apache MySQL PHP
4. Add new <wikisyntax /> Or add new [[Special:Specialpage]] (reports) Extensions
5. API http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
7. (Diagram is for 1.10, April 2007; latest release is 1.15)
8. Images/files
9. Revisions (edits)
10. Templates, categories & links
12. Categories
13. Categories
14. Categories
15. Categories from templates!
16. Templates “Boilerplate” – no parameters Licenses Stub markers
17. Templates “Infobox” – parameters (key-value pairs)
18. Templates {{Information}} – Wikimedia Commons {{Information |description= |date= |source= |author= |permission= }}
19. Templates
20. Templates
21. Templates
22. Users “Anonymous”/IP: Can read Can edit
23. Users “Anonymous”/IP (Registered) User: Can create new page Can upload files Can move
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
25. Users “Anonymous”/IP (Registered) User Administrator/Sysop Bureaucrat: Can create administrators Typically elected by the community
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.
27. Thank you! blaugher@wikimedia.org.au http://brianna.modernthings.org