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Wiki - Web Collaboration
of: Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Richard Heigl
Springer-Verlag, 2005
ISBN: 9783540292678 , 383 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Foreword
5
The Authors
9
Content
10
Preface
17
Typography
21
I. The Wiki Concept
23
1 The Wiki Concept
24
1.1 What is a Wiki?
24
1.2 The Technology of Wikis
29
1.3 Wiki Clones
32
1.4 Characteristic Wiki Functions
34
1.5 The Wiki Phenomenon
35
II. Our First Wiki
46
2 The Installation
47
2.1 A Test Environment with XAMPP
48
2.2 Installing MediaWiki
52
3 First Steps
57
3.1 The Wiki at First Glance
57
3.2 Hello World
58
3.3 Initial Formatting
60
3.4 Vive la Difference: Versions
62
3.5 Register as a User
63
4 The Core Functions of MediaWiki
65
4.1 Editing
65
4.2 Discussions
69
4.3 Comparisons
69
4.4 Moving and Renaming
71
4.5 Watching
73
4.6 Protect
74
4.7 Deleting
75
5 Formatting
76
5.1 Formatting Characters
76
5.2 Special Characters & Co.
77
5.3 Headings and Paragraphs
79
5.4 Lists and Lines
80
5.5 Tables
82
5.6 Table of Contents
87
6 Multi-Page Structures
88
6.1 Linking Methods
88
6.2 Organizing Content
92
6.3 Multi-Page Design I - Images
97
6.4 Multi-Page Design II – Templates
105
6.5 Forwarding with Redirects
112
7 Components: the Function Pages
114
7.1 Navigation
115
7.2 Search Function
120
7.3 User Administration
121
7.4 Information about the Wiki
125
7.5 Maintenance
126
8 Administration
130
8.1 File structure and
130
8.2 Database Structure
135
8.3 Design Questions
138
8.4 Wiki Spam
141
8.5 Security
143
8.6 Update and Uninstall
144
9 Life in MediaWiki
146
9.1 More than Mere Text
146
9.2 Make Participation Easy
148
9.3 You Don’t Write Alone
149
9.4 Usage Examples
151
III. TWiki, the Jack of all Trades
157
10 Installing TWiki
158
10.1 Installation under Linux
159
10.2 TWiki without an Admin-Account
162
10.3 Installation under Windows
164
10.4 Completing TWiki Installation
171
10.5 Viewing TWiki Pages
175
11 Working with TWiki
177
11.1 What are Webs?
177
11.2 A Website
178
11.3 The Edit Window
188
12 Formatting in TWiki
191
12.1 Formatting Text
191
12.2 Tables
194
12.3 Links
196
12.4 Integrating Images
197
12.5 HTML in TWiki
198
12.6 TWiki and JavaScript
199
12.7 TWiki Variables
199
13 Searching in TWiki
203
13.1 The Search Function
203
13.2 Effective Searching
205
13.3 Searching with Regular Expressions
205
13.4 Embedded Searches
208
14 User Permissions in TWiki
214
14.1 Authentication vs. Access Control
214
14.2 Activating User Registration
215
14.3 Setting Up Password Protection
216
14.4 Access Control
217
14.5 Strategies for User Rights
221
14.6 A Mixed Strategy for Authentication
222
15 Administering TWiki
227
15.1 Administering Webs
227
15.2 Topic Templates
230
15.3 Interwiki Links
232
15.4 User Administration
233
15.5 Email
234
15.6 Spam in TWiki
236
15.7 Security Aspects
237
15.8 Backing Up Data
239
15.9 Upgrading and Uninstalling
239
16 Designing a TWiki
241
16.1 Designing the Look
241
16.2 TWiki in Other Languages
255
16.3 Plugins and Add-ons
257
IV. TWiki as a Project Kit
261
17 Preliminary Thoughts
262
18 Conceptual Phase: Collecting Ideas and Outlining the Project
272
19 Composing the Project Plan
285
20 Preparing for Your Event
312
21 Executing and Documenting an Event
323
V. Tools with a Future
345
22 Tools with a Future? Technical and Social Outlook with Wikis
346
22.1 Technical Outlook
346
22.2 Wikis as an Engine for Social Change?
351
Appendix
365
A Installations in TWiki
366
Cygwin
366
Perl
367
Shebang
368
Changing
369
Owners
369
Glossary
371
Bibliography
377
Index
381
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