MediaWiki User Guide

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This is a user guide to MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia, Wikibooks and other Wikimedia projects. The book focuses on reading and editing wikis running Mediawiki, including the Mediawiki markup. Topics out of scope of the book include administration and development of Mediawiki.

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1. Introduction
2. User Interface
3. Markup
   1. Text Formatting
   2. Hyperlinks
   3. Sections and Headings
   4. Lists
   5. Tables
   6. Images
   7. Categories
   8. Templates
   9. References
   10. Mathematics
   11. Namespaces
4. Extensions
5. Index
6. Glossary

[edit] Related books

• Editing Wikitext
• MediaWiki Developer's Handbook
• MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook