MediaWiki/Wikimedia tech infrastructure

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

2. None

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

6. None

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

8. Images/files

9. Revisions (edits)

10. Templates, categories & links

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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