MediaWiki Tips

MediaWiki is free open source software (FOSS) used to edit and publish wiki pages, such as Wikipedia, as well as many other wikis including our Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) wiki.

 

What is a wiki?

A wiki is a website that allows quick and collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users.

The most popular wiki is Wikipedia.

"Fun fact"... the term "wiki" actually means quick in Hawaiian.

MediaWiki

Links to external pages:

Sites using MediaWiki

Links to related PPM Wiki pages:

The Pikes Peak Makerspace Wiki

The Pikes Peak Makerspace Wiki was first launched in the middle of May 2015. Our wiki was first indexed by Google in November 2015.

It was taken down for a period of time, but fortunately in the middle of 2021 it was reestablished from backups.

Send us a Direct Message on Slack, or post your ideas to our Slack channel #ppm-wiki

AI generated content on this Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) Wiki will be labeled as such, to the extent possible.

Additionally, we are anticipating that AI “chat” interfaces for searching will become increasingly common, so we will be continually improving content here to stay current and remain useful to our members and the general public.

Our social media sites and communication materials may have individual procedures and goals at this time.

Tips

Allowed file types that can be uploaded are the image formats PNG, GIF, JPG, and JPEG.

The file type SVG can also be uploaded after an extension is installed.

Related Pages

Links to related PPM Wiki pages:

SVG File Format Tips

  Computers — Windows  

Hand-Curated Links

Links to member-recommended external sites:

User-generated content (UGC) — on Wikipedia

Magnus Manske — one of the first developers of MediaWiki

Jimmy Wales — co-founder of Wikipedia

List of Wikipedia people — on Wikipedia

For Additional Help

Use our PPM Slack channel #ppm-wiki

List of all PPM Slack channels

Note that we have a Slack channel (#job-board) for members to post, discuss, or accept job opportunities either within PPM or from the community.

PPM Tool Color Map — Interactive

Search the PPM Wiki — include both Content pages and Multimedia

Contact Us if you cannot find your answer here on our Wiki, or you notice something is outdated.

Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is dedicated to supporting our maker community in their creative processes by providing shared space, shared tools, materials, software and a knowledge base to turn their ideas into reality.