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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This page contains a list of features that are built into the MediaWiki software.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Whether you should use MediaWiki for your own wiki depends on what kind of website you want to run with it.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Wikipedia's software has many useful features that grew out of the needs of the users and the ideas of the developers -- but features also mean complexity.</span>
 
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Before you decide to use '''MediaWiki''', please take a look at other Wiki engines (see [http://wiki.c2.com/?WikiEngines this list] or [http://www.wikimatrix.org/ this comparison]) and see if one of them might meet your requirements better.
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Requests for new features should be submitted to [[Phabricator]].
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== Do I want MediaWiki? ==
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki software and extensions have features and benefits, strengths and weaknesses, pros and cons, and in spite of anyone's intended purposes, MediaWiki software and extensions can be used for unique, clever, inventive purposes unforeseen by the original programmers or other installers.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Here is a brief list of MediaWiki features and benefits.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you develop an equivalent list of your own goals and resources, you can compare this list to your list and see where there's a match, or mismatch.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Need more help deciding?</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There are open discussion groups on the web, and "talk" discussion pages behind each main MediaWiki page where you can seek connection with other people's experiences.</span>

{{note|1=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Sample feature list from pages 13-14, in the book "MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation" by Mizanur Rahman, 2007 [https://www.packtpub.com/ https://www.packtpub.com/]</span>}}

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| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">'''MediaWiki feature'''</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">'''MediaWiki Benefit'''</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">'''Your goals'''</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">'''Your resources'''</span>

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| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Easy Navigation:</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Easy to contribute without much training...</span>
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|...

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| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Editing, Formatting, and Referencing:</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Manage and find content...</span>
|...
|...

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| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Look and feel change:</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Customizable to your preferences...</span>
|...
|...

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| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">File uploading:</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Content management and sharing...</span>
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|...

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| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Multilanguage support:</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">UTF-8 support allows one piece of software to author for all languages...</span>
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| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">User Management:</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Access and security control...</span>
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|&nbsp;

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| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Syndication:</span>
| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Share your site info...</span>
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| <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">...more...</span>
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Please enhance and expand the above table's features and benefits to assist visitors to best know what they are getting into.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Thanks!</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">One recurring problem is that system administrators decide to create a wiki, without taking into account many issues.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">After filling out the previous table, ask yourself the following questions, to see if a wiki is the right software for you:</span>

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# ''What is my site's intended purpose?''
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#: Wikis are ideal for collaborative editing and creation of content; they are not very well suited for other purposes, like blogging.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Consider whether a [[w:wiki|wiki]] is an adequate option for your goals.</span>
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# ''How many users will this wiki be exposed to?''
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#: With a few exceptions, installing wiki software is unnecessary when there is a very small group of people interested in editing the wiki.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The larger the user base, the higher the probability a wiki makes more sense for you.</span>
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# ''How many active editors do I expect to edit my wiki?''
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#: Wikis, due to their open nature, require some maintenance.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The larger the editor base, the more hands available to perform those maintenance tasks.</span>
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# ''What can I do with MediaWiki?''
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#: MediaWiki is an extremely versatile wiki engine; it is relatively easy to install, but more importantly, allows for the use and creation of [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extensions|extensions]].
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">These allow your MediaWiki installation to be extremely customizable with some knowledge of PHP.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">With the proper motivation, MediaWiki can be "abused" to do almost anything.</span>
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# ''Is MediaWiki right for me?''
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#: MediaWiki has its limitations.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">A more considerable limitation is that MediaWiki is not meant to be an [[w:access control list|access control list]].</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki ''raison d'etre'' is to provide open content; while recent versions have a much stronger security model, there are still significant gaps in individual-based security access.</span>

{{Note|1=''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Preventing access}} and [[Security issues with authorization extensions]].</span>''}}


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== How should I configure MediaWiki? ==
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If you have decided that MediaWiki is indeed an appropriate solution, there are still more things to consider.
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These questions will hopefully help you decide how to configure your wiki in a way that will allow you to minimize issues in the longer term:
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# ''Who do I want reading my wiki?''
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#: In spite of all the issues with individual-based page restrictions, MediaWiki can be configured to restrict or allow access to everyone.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">So, ask yourself whether you want everyone in the Internet to see the contents of your wiki, or if you want to restrict that privilege to those users who have created accounts in your wiki.</span>
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# ''Who do I want editing my wiki?''
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#: Perhaps the most common question is whether you want to permit everyone to edit your wiki, similar to the [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] model.
</div>  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki allows for fine-grained writing restrictions; you can allow unregistered users to edit talk pages, for example, but only allow users with accounts older than a certain amount of time to edit your content pages.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You can restrict editing to sysops, or even to a custom user group you create and delegate.</span>
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# ''Who do I want creating an account on my wiki?''
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#: Depending on some of the answers to the questions above, you may want to decide to restrict who can create accounts in a wiki.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You can allow anyone to create accounts; or you can even designate that privilege to administrators, who would then be responsible for creating accounts for new users via some process of your choosing.</span>
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# ''What powers do I want each user group to have?''
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#: One of the most important questions you need to answer is this one.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Granting or removing privileges to a group can be ''extremely'' controversial in a large wiki, so having a good idea of what each user should be able to do is critical.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Do you want unregistered users to create pages?</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Do you want registered users to create pages?</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Do you want wiki administrators to be able to block and delete pages, or do you want to extend more privileges to them?</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Who is responsible for granting more privileges?</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Who is responsible for removing them?</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Who do you want to have more fine-grained powers, such as [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oversight policy|oversight]], [[m:Special:MyLanguage/CheckUser policy|checkuser]], and [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Reverting#Rollback|rollback]]?</span>
#:<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:User rights}} and {{ll|Help:User rights management}} for more ideas and information.</span>
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# ''Which extensions should I install?''
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#: With a few exceptions, [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extensions|extensions]] are easy to add, whether it be while installing the wiki, or after a couple of years of the wiki being run.
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# ''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Do I need to manage structured data?</span>''
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#: For [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Managing data in MediaWiki|managing structured data within MediaWiki]], several dedicated extensions exist.
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">With those answers, you should be able to configure the most critical aspects of your wiki.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You can proceed to beginning the installation process in your [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:OS specific help|operating system]].</span>

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==Look and feel==
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*'''Links with shortcuts''', arrangement depends on skin.
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*'''{{ll|Manual:Skins|nsp=0}}''' - <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Different ways to present the site</span>
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*'''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:User style|User style]]s''': Users can adapt the look and feel of the site through custom CSS on their user pages.
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*'''"Stub" threshold''': Users can see links to articles below a certain size rendered in a different color.
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*'''Printable versions''' of articles can be generated.
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*'''Auto-number headings''' in an article (optional).
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*'''Intra-page Anchors''' (automatically generated for headings, and also with <nowiki><div id="tagname">...</div></nowiki>).
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* {{anchor|TOC}}<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">'''Automatically generate a table of contents''' for long articles (optional).</span>
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*Automatically turn '''ISBN numbers''' into links to an editable list of booksellers.
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*'''XHTML'''- or '''HTML5'''-compatible output (or darn close to it), tidy integration.
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==Multimedia and extensions==
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*'''File upload feature''' allows uploading graphic or sound files, see [[Special:Upload]] to see in operation, and [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Uploading files|Uploading files]] for description.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Uploaded files are listed on [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]] and they are also logged on [[Special:Log/upload]].</span>
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*'''Mathematical formulas using LaTeX syntax'''
</div> - <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Extension:Math}} and {{ll|Manual:Mathoid}}</span>
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*'''Automatic resizing''' of images using ImageMagick or libgd, simple syntax for image captions and image alignment
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*'''[[Special:MyLanguage/Extension:WikiHiero|WikiHiero]]''' for Egyptian hieroglyphs (needs separate installed components)
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*'''{{ll|Extension:Graph|nsp=0}}''' - <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">for any kinds of charts (needs separate installed components)</span>

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==Keeping track of edits==
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*'''Watchlist''' Every page has a link "Watch this article for me".
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Use [[Special:Watchlist]] to track changes on the articles you declared as interesting; watched articles are also bolded in the [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]] list .</span>
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*'''User contributions''' in the sidebar of each user page list all articles the user has worked on, according to the database.
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*'''Extended recent changes''' with dynamic collapsing of edits to the same article and quick links to diff the edit, show the article history, show the user page, show the user talk page, or block the user (for sysops)
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*'''"Related changes":''' View a filtered version of Recent Changes to the pages linked from the current page.
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*'''Side-by-side diffs''' - the diffs are shown side-by-side, and changed portions of lines are highlighted, making it much easier to see what's what.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Additionally, a diff is shown during an edit conflict so you can see exactly what you need to reintegrate.</span>
*'''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Real names</span>''' - <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Users can (optionally) specify a "real name" they want to use for author credits.</span>
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*'''On-page credits'''.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Administrators can enable an on-page paragraph giving credit to editors who've worked on a page.</span>

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==Structures and syntax==
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*By default, only [[Special:MyLanguage/HTML restriction|restricted]] use of [[w:HTML|HTML]] is allowed.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There is an option to allow full use of HTML.</span>
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*'''Editing syntax based on UseMod''', with support for mixing wiki-syntax and HTML.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Only free links are supported for linking, not [[w:CamelCase|CamelCase]] (deliberate design decision).</span>
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*'''Namespaces''' allow content separation (to address the namespace, use the <nowiki>[[Namespace:Page title]]</nowiki> syntax).
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**Discussion (Talk:) pages are separate from article pages, "meta" project pages can be separated from content pages, image pages are used for image descriptions.
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**[[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:System message|MediaWiki: namespace]] contains all user interface texts, so that they can be edited like any other wiki page
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**Template: namespace for custom messages.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Templates may contain string variables which are replaced with certain values passed to the template from the calling page.</span>
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*'''[[w:Transclusion|Transclusion]]''' of arbitrary pages in any namespace: <nowiki>{{:Page Name}}</nowiki>.
</div> Zobacz [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Template|szablony]]
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*'''Word-extension linking''': If you include a link of the form <nowiki>[[war]]s</nowiki>, or <nowiki>[[war]]time</nowiki>, the system will automatically display it as if you had typed <nowiki>[[war|wars]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[war|wartime]]</nowiki>, respectively, saving some typing.
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*'''Parenthetical hiding''' ("[[pipe tricks]]") If you include a link of the form <nowiki>[[kernel (mathematics)|]]</nowiki>, the parenthetical portion will be hidden in the link: [[kernel (mathematics)|kernel]].
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This is useful for disambiguating different meanings of a word without making linking too difficult or cluttering up the text of articles.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This also works with cropping out namespaces when you want a cleaner-looking link: <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Copyrights|]]</nowiki> becomes [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|Copyrights]]</span>
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*'''Link to individual sections''' of an article, e.g. [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Editing]] (these links may become invalid if sections are retitled or removed.)
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*Support for '''subpages''' (link to "Foo/Bar" from "Foo" by just typing "/Bar", "Foo/Bar" contains a backlink to "Foo"), these can be enabled or disabled by namespace (e.g., Wikipedia currently supports subpages on discussion pages, to make archiving easy, and on user pages, to give users space for personal pages)
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*[[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic words|Special keywords]] for inserting '''dynamic data''' such as the name of the current page, the current date, the number of articles, etc.
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*Multiple '''Categories''' can be assigned to any page, including categories themselves, creating a hierarchy of categories.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Category pages automatically list all pages assigned to them, including sub-categories.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Categories allow classification and hierarchical browsing of the content.</span>

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==Editing==
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*'''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Section|<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Section editing</span>]]''' - <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Users can enable an option that allows them to edit individual sections of an article (separated by headlines) instead of loading the entire article.</span>
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*'''Edit toolbar''' (JavaScript-based) for formatting text as '''bold''', ''italic'' etc. (fully works in Mozilla and IE, other browsers use it to show the syntax, but cannot format text inside the text area because their JavaScript implementation does not support it).
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If JavaScript is disabled, the toolbar is not shown.</span>
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*'''Edit summary''' which is shown in "Recent changes".
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Will be prefilled with section title when section editing.</span>
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*'''Double click editing''': Users can enable an option that allows them to edit articles by double clicking them.
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*'''Edit preview''' (can be shown before or after edit box)
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*Handle '''edit conflicts''' (page being saved by a user while still being edited by another one, then saved again).
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki will merge changes automatically if possible and otherwise require the user to do a manual merge.</span>
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*Mark edits as '''minor'''; users can decide to hide such edits from the Recent Changes list.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Only signed in users can mark edits as minor.</span>

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== Spam i wandalizm ==
*{{ll|Manual:Combating spam}} - <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Prevent link spamming, and other forms of abusive editing.</span>
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**[[m:Spam blacklist]] - List of spammer's domain names which users are not allowed to link to.
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* {{ll|Manual:Combating vandalism}} - <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Helpful hints and links to some extensions for dealing with vandalism</span>

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== Dyskusje ==

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*'''Talk pages''': Each user (including every anonymous user) and every article has an associated page where messages can be left.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">These are separate namespaces (see above), "Talk:" and "User talk:".</span>
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*'''Message notification''' (user gets a "You have new messages" notice if someone else has edited their user discussion page); this also works for anonymous users, but not for ''shared'' IP users
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*'''Automatic signature''': Just type three tildes (~) when you edit, and on saving the page, it will be replaced with your user name and a link to your user page.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you use four tildes, the current date will be added as well.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Mainly intended for Talk pages.</span>
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*Support for '''emailing users''' through the wiki (email address not shown to the user)
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== Multilanguage support ==
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*Translated into '''many languages''' (see [[:en:Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination]] for details)
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*'''[[w:Help:Interlanguage links|Interlanguage links]]''': handy method for linking articles between wikis in different languages (each language requires its own database)
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*'''UTF-8''' support
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== Backend ==
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*'''Database-driven''' (MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQlite are supported)
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*'''Parser caching''': rendered pages are cached to reduce redundant processing
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*'''Output caching''': complete page output can be optionally saved as static HTML files for serving to other clients; support for Squid proxies
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*'''Cookie-based''' account and login system, but anonymous users can also edit pages
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*'''All revisions''' of an article are stored (optionally compressed)
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*'''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Syndication feeds|RSS]]''' syndication available for many special pages, such as [[Special:NewPages]] and [[Special:RecentChanges]]
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*'''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/RDF metadata|<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">RDF metadata</span>]]'''


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==Permissions==
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*'''Different rights''' for anonymous users, signed in users, sysops, bureaucrats and developers.
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*'''Signed in users''' can:
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**move and rename pages
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**upload files
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**have and use a watchlist
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**mark edits as ''minor edits'' (e.g. typo correction)
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*'''Admins/Sysops''' can:
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**protect pages from editing
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**delete and undelete pages
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**edit protected pages
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**ban users by IP address
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**ban users by username, if this option is enabled
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*'''Bureaucrats''' can:
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**create sysops
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**rename users
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**flag bots
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*'''Developers''' can:
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**lock the database
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**run various maintenance tasks
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*'''Other permission schemes''' (e.g. only signed in users can edit pages) [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgGroupPermissions|can be configured]].
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==Search and Queries==
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*'''Full text search'''
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*'''"Go" button''' allows direct viewing of a specified article's contents (tries near match if no exact hit)
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*'''"What links here":''' View pages that link to the current page (backlinks)
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*'''Special report pages:'''
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**New pages: List of newly created articles
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**Ancient pages: Articles sorted by timestamp, ascending
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**List of images
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**List of users
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**Site statistics
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**Orphaned articles (articles that have no links pointing to them)
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**Orphaned images
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**Popular articles (articles by number of visits, works only if counters are enabled)
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**Most wanted articles (non-existent articles sorted by number of links pointing to them)
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**Short articles
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**Long articles
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**List of all pages by title
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*'''[[Special:MyLanguage/API:Query|Query]] API''' - allows scripted access to various metadata
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==Misc.==
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*'''Random article''' display function
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*Users can configure their '''timezone''', which is used on all report timestamps
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*The attributes of many report pages ('''number of results''' etc.) can be set in the user preferences
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==Empty set of help pages==
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Note that the files in the installation contain many links pointing to documents that are not included in the download.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Most important is the empty set of help files, which will be needed by any new user of the site.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To remedy these broken links, you must either (a) [[Special:MyLanguage/Project:PD_help/Copying|export from this site]] or manually copy and modify help pages to your installation or (b) modify the installation's parameters to change the help link targets to this site, either of which may require a substantial time investment.</span>

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