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Tips &nd tricks for BS administrators

Topics

Topic is the custom name that we use to refer to a category.

A list of topics that we work with can be found here: Topic:Topics.

To add a topic: make a page in the format Topic:yourtopichere and copy/paste the smq query + category tag from another topic page, for example from Topic:Activism:

<div class="overview">
{{#ask:[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
|?Thumb
|?Category
|?Modification date
|?Creation date
|?Last editor is
|format=template
|template=Articles
}}

[[Category:Topics]]
</div>

Save the page, and it will be listed in the Topic:Topics page. Also, it will show up as one of the options in the drop-down menu of topics when you make a new article.

(We use these queries and templates to make the overview pages with the thumbnails.)

Vocabulary

The system's modes of address can be edited here: Special:AllMessages.

A couple of useful ones are the following ones:

• MediaWiki:Pf formedit formwarning > "Warning: This page already exists, but it does not use this form."
• Mediawiki:Sidebar > to edit the menu on the top
• MediaWiki:Welcomecreation-msg > welcome message to new users that just registered
• MediaWiki:Lastmodifiedatby > Page info text, last editor of page ("last edited by")
• MediaWiki:Othercontribs > Page info text, list of all previous editors of page > ("Based on work by ...")
• http://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllMessages&prefix=Upload-form&filter=all&lang=en&limit=50 > Upload Dialog, specially helpful to edit the license texts.

Trick! You can add "?uselang=qqx" to the url of a page to view the system message names.

Layout

We can use the MediaWiki:Common.css page to make a couple of (small) changes in the style & layout of the wiki.

However, as there are many css files active for this layout, most of the styling is defined in the skin files that sit on the server. You can see them here: https://github.com/wdka-publicationSt/BeyondSocial-wiki/tree/alive/skins/BeyondSocial/components