The document outlines the technical infrastructure of MediaWiki, including key components such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It discusses user roles and permissions, such as functionalities of anonymous users, registered users, and administrators. Additionally, it touches on the various templates and categories used within the MediaWiki framework.

1. MediaWiki/Wikimedia
tech infrastructure
Brianna Laugher
6 August 2009
glam.wikimedia.org.au

3. Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP

4. Extensions
Add new <wikisyntax />
Or add new [[Special:Specialpage]]
(reports)

5. API
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

7. (Diagram is for
1.10, April 2007;
latest release is 1.15)

8. Images/files

9. Revisions (edits)

10. Templates, categories & links

12. Categories

13. Categories

14. Categories

15. Categories
from
templates!

16. Templates
“Boilerplate” – no parameters
Licenses
Stub markers

17. Templates
“Infobox” – parameters
(key-value pairs)

18. Templates
{{Information}} – Wikimedia Commons
{{Information
|description=
|date=
|source=
|author=
|permission=
}}

19. Templates

20. Templates

21. Templates

22. Users
“Anonymous”/IP:
Can read
Can edit

23. Users
“Anonymous”/IP
(Registered) User:
Can create new page
Can upload files
Can move

24. Users
“Anonymous”/IP
(Registered) User
Administrator/Sysop:
Can (un)delete
Can (un)block
Can (un)protect
Can edit protected pages
Typically elected by the community

25. Users
“Anonymous”/IP
(Registered) User
Administrator/Sysop
Bureaucrat:
Can create administrators
Typically elected by the community

26. Credits
GLAM-WIKI logo - © Wikimedia Foundation.
MediaWiki logo – public domain.
Database schema – by Nick Jenkins. GFDL/GPL.
Continuous copper casting disc – by Alchemist-
hp. CC-BY-SA-DE-3.0.
MediaWiki screenshots – MediaWiki is licensed
under the GPL.
Everything else is © Brianna Laugher & licensed
CC-BY-SA-3.0.

27. Thank you!
blaugher@wikimedia.org.au
http://brianna.modernthings.org