Mediawiki is the perfect solution for creating your own online encyclopedia, online magazine or blog. This software is quick, easy to install and completely free of charge.
MediaWiki is a free and open source software written in PHP that implements a hypertext wiki environment and was originally created as an engine for Wikipedia. MediaWiki is now used by various projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, as well as many other sites.
Mediawiki is a rather popular and easy-to-use platform for creating article-based, informational sites, as many special extensions have been developed for it, providing convenient work and systematization of information. The platform has been translated into numerous languages, so today there are many websites made on Mediawiki in different countries.
How to create new pages
New pages are created in a special editor called VisualEditor – a specially designed editor for the MediaWiki platform for creating, editing pages. The editor has a wide range of tools, such as working with lists, tables, files, templates, links and other objects on the page.
In order to create a new page you need to enter the name of the article in the search field, if the page with this name does not exist on the site, the system will offer to create a new page with this name. Going to the page in the editor, you can enter text and design it as you wish.
In addition to the editor, there is a page code editor that uses wiki markup. Wiki markup is a markup language that is used for text layout and makes it easier to access the features of the HTML language. Pages designed with wiki text are pre-converted to HTML for viewing in a web browser.
Using templates in articles
A template is a specially prepared information, thematic block that can be used in different articles on one specific topic. The convenience of templates is that they can be inserted into many pages, filling in the necessary data, which are subsequently displayed on the page.
How to create categories in a wiki
It is also very convenient that each page can be assigned to a particular category, thus creating a catalog of categories, which is very convenient for navigation, both in certain sections and throughout the site. The same page can be assigned to several categories (sections). After that, at the bottom of each page will be links to the specified categories, if the page with this category is not created, the link will be displayed in red color, by clicking on it you can, like any other page in mediawiki, create, thus creating categories.