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Help content comes in two flavors: All Users and Administrators.

Contents 1 Accounts 2 Authors 2.1 Writing and collaboration 2.2 Wiki docs presentation 2.3 Content organisation 2.4 Translations 3 Administrators 3.1 Users Management 3.2 Interface Administration 3.3 Back-end Administration 3.4 Extensions Management and Use 3.5 External resources

Accounts

• help:New Accounts

Authors

Writing and collaboration

• help:Writing Textpattern Tutorials
• help:MediaWiki Syntax Compared to Textile
• help:Page Status Flags
• MediaWiki Markup Help
• MediaWiki User's Guide
• MediaWiki Interface Help

Wiki docs presentation

• help:Inline Text Presentation
• help:Custom Block Presentation
• help:Lists Presentation
• help:Tables Presentation

Content organisation

• help:Namespaces
• help:Categories
• help:Templates

Translations

• help:Translating the English main page
• help:Localizing MediaWiki Use
• help:Languages and Translation Representatives
• help:Translating Wiki Content
• help:Content Language Options
• help:Documentation Semantics

Administrators

Info mostly for admins.

Users Management

• help:Creating New User Accounts
• help:TextBook User Groups and Rights
  • $wgGroupPermissions

Interface Administration

• MediaWiki:Mainpage (to edit title of home page)
• MediaWiki:Sidebar (to edit sidebar links)
• special:Allmessages (to edit system interface messages)

Back-end Administration

These topics apply equally to http://textpattern.net/test-wiki.

• help:Wiki Testing Prior to Upgrades and Modifications
• help:Upgrading the TextBook Installation
• help:TextBook Skin
• help:Wiki URL Rewriting
• help:Adding New Translation Languages
• help:Synchronizing Test-Wiki Database Against Main

Extensions Management and Use

See special:Version for auto-generated list of installed extensions. (Same for test-wiki.)

• help:Adding Extensions
• help:DeleteBatch Extension (delete multiple pages at once)
• help:MultipleUpload Extension (upload multiple files/images at once)
• help:PdfBook Extension
  • Installing HTMLDOC (Required! The free, open source version.)

External resources

Useful:

• Configuration Path Variables

General Reading:

• MediaWiki Admin Help
• WikiMedia's Administration Documentation
• WikiPedia's Administrator How-to Guide
• MediaWiki Upgrade Documentation