User:Kutschke/Draft WikiTips

WikiTips

This page contains background information about the Mu2e wiki and tips for using it.

Introduction

The Mu2e wiki is an instance of MediaWiki that is supported by the Fermilab Information Technology Division (ITD). ITD maintains MediaWiki instances for many experiments and projects. In the interest of keeping things simple to manage they will not install WikiMedia extensions so we are missing some useful functionality. Among the extensions they will not install is that extension that would allow us to make pages public/private on a per page basis. Instead we have one public wiki and one private wiki. There are also separate public and private wikis for Mu2e-II. Look a the top of the left sidebar for links to all 4 wikis.

Some extensions can be installed by us and you can request that a Mu2e admin install them.

Navigating the MediaWiki Help

On the left side bar there are a lot of links to help information and you should familiarize yourself with these. In the middle section of the left side bar, there is a "Help" link. This takes you to the main MediaWiki help pages. Under the "Tools" heading there are several

Another strategy is to google MediaWiki along with the topic you are looking to find. That will often take you immediately to the right place in the MediaWiki help or to a third party explanation.

And you can ask a question on a Mu2e slack channel.

Greek Fonts

and Latex fonts.