User:Mcint/WikiMaxxing

I'm on-boarding myself to more extensive wiki use. I've come across some features on Wikipedia that make it more a of delight to use and navigate. I'd like to document those features here (separated, or tagged by reader vs. editor benefitting), and encourage others to try them out.

Note well

Differences

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Differences_between_Wikipedia,_Wikimedia,_MediaWiki,_and_wiki

Preferences

• Auto-number sections
• (TODO: links to section head from self, not just from page's table of contents).

Trying out

ctrl-opt-.

ctrl-opt-.</kdb>

Idioms

• For code, literal or copyable text, or config files, useful variants include:

<tt> / <code> /

<pre>

Gadgets

You can add your own, via your Special:Mypage/common.js (or Special:Mypage/global.js). JS was enabled for the wiki per MW Manual with $wgAllowUserJs = true;

Wants

• QR Code generated for each page, for printing / easy UX linking back to page
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QRLite
  • Big list: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QR_Codes
  • Shorturl would be nice nburl.net/w/[wiki url]? For better, simpler QR codes
• References section - extract all URLs (or external links) into references footer section
• Popup things
  • NavigationPopups (and beyond the (Article:) namespace).
    • Extension:Popups
  • Page Previews
    • Extension:Popups
      • Extension:TextExtracts (MediaWiki 1.37+)
        • I'll gladly help with a MediaWiki upgrade at some point. Would be nice to build from nix.
      • Extension:PageImages
  • Reference Tooltips

• • MoreMenu
• Also, the rich editor as available at least on wikipedia.