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Contents 1 Exercise 0 2 Exercise 1 3 Exercise 2 4 Exercise 3 5 Exercise 4 6 Exercise 5

Exercise 0

Install the LAMP/MAMP stack in your PC. Install MediaWiki software by following the intrsuctions in the mediawiki site: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation

Exercise 1

Learn:

• Base wiki setup
• Wiki base syntax: text styles, lists, tables, links

Goals:

• Let's create our wiki:
  • Setup the title of the wiki at MyFavourites: the wiki of all your favourite things...
  • Customize the wiki logo: choose an image and let it appear in the mediawiki pages instead of the default one.
  • Create the following pages:
    1. Your favourite music group page, which should includethe following sections:
       • Short group story, with the list of the group members
       • The discography, as a table with: year, album title
       • A list of links to external resources
    2. Your favourite writer
       • Add a brief biography,
       • A table with its works (year, title)
       • A list of links to external resources
    3. Your favourite dish
       • The list of ingredients
       • How to prepare it
  • Create the following new categories:
    1. Music
    2. Writer
    3. Cousin
  • Let each page belong to the related category
• List all pages in the main page.
• Try to use as much as possible different styles (bold, italic...)
• Each page name should follow the following name convention:
  • No spaces/underscore are allowed.
  • Camel case should be used.

Exercise 2

Learn:

• Advanced editing: Variables, Templates

Goals:

• Create templates and use them in the pages of exercise 1 (try to share those templates in different category pages):
  • Biography
  • Works
  • Ingredients
• Create a template to be used as header of each wiki article. Each page should display, as the main section header:
  1. the name of the page (without namespace)
  2. a link to the discussion page
  3. informations about the last page editing
• Change the title of the page to the name of the content (of example, if the page name is MarcelProust, the title should be Marcel Proust

Exercise 3

Learn:

• Discover MediaWiki user types.
• How to change user permissions

Goals:

• Setup the following configuration:
  1. Only the administrator can create user accounts
  2. Unregistered users cannot change the wiki content (but they can read it)
• Create two new users (choose names for them):
  1. The first user is a common user
  2. The second one can change user permissions, but is not administrator.

Exercise 4

Learn:

• How to install extensions
• How to use ParserFunctions
• How to use StringFunctions

Goals:

• Install the following extensions:
  1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions
  2. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions

Exercise 5

Learn:

• How to create new namespaces