Documentation

Tips &nd tricks for BS administrators

Categories

To add a Category: make a page in the format Category:yourtopichere.

Cargo

Our documentation about Cargo can be found here: Cargo

Semantic MediaWiki (SMW)

We're using Semantic MediaWiki to define the data structures of:

• Article pages
• Event pages
• User profile pages
• Stack pages
• Frictionary

Read more about the SMW data structures that we use here: SMW

Changing interface text

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