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Return to Plant Genetic Resources Dictionary main site.

Original documentation can be found here.

For Readers

Navigating

1. Searching, Go button
2. What links here
3. Random page
4. Special pages
5. Printable version
6. Downloading pages
7. Using the document export function

Tracking changes

1. Recent changes
2. Enhanced recent changes
3. Related changes
4. Watching pages
5. Page history
6. Diff
7. User contributions

Accounts

1. Logging in
2. Preferences
3. User style

For Editors

Editing overview

Starting a new page

1. Page name

Referencing

1. Links
2. Piped links
3. Interwiki linking
4. Linking pages to their alternate language versions
5. Variables
6. URLs
7. Anchors

Formatting

1. Formulas
2. Calculation
3. Lists
4. Tables
5. HTML in wikitext
6. Image & File uploads
7. Image page

Organizing

1. Sections
2. Templates
3. Category
4. Redirects
5. Renaming (moving) a page
6. Namespaces

Saving effort

1. Editing shortcuts
2. Editing toolbar
3. Magic words

Fixing mistakes and vandalism

1. Reverting edits
2. Testing

Communicating

1. Edit summary
2. Talk page
3. Edit conflict
4. Minor edit

Special characters

For System Administrators

Overview

1. Administrator's Guide
2. MediaWiki architecture
3. Database layout

Installation

1. Installing the wiki dictionary: Beginner's guide ~ Start Here
2. Installation
3. Working with CVS
4. CVS tree installation
5. MediaWiki's Official Installation FAQ
6. MediaWiki's Linux Installation Documentation
7. MediaWiki's FreeBSD Installation Documentation
8. MediaWiki's Windows Installation Documentation
9. Using the keyword linking scan

Security

1. Security
2. Security Checklist
3. Paranoid Permissions (system)
4. Setting user rights (inside wiki environment)

Configuration

1. Access Restrictions
2. Configuration
3. MediaWiki's Configuration settings index
4. Apache config
5. Robots.txt -- how to stop search engines from indexing the internals of your wiki
6. Eliminating index.php from the url
7. Using a very short URL
8. PHP config
9. MySQL config

Customization

1. Layout customization
2. Timezone adjustments
3. MediaWiki localization -- localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
4. Interwiki links
5. Custom skins
6. Custom namespaces
7. Configuration tips and tricks
8. MediaWiki Hacks and Extensions
9. Setting up email notification

Manage the database

1. Backup Database
2. Restore a MediaWiki Database
3. Reduce the size of the database

Performance

1. PHP caching and optimization
2. File cache
3. Squid caching
4. As your Site Grows

Upgrading

1. Upgrade Mediawiki