This will contain a manual for Administrators of the wiki.

Editing Content

To review how to edit content within the wiki, go to the Archives Manual.

There are some advanced linking functions that may be useful an administrator:

• Linking to an Image Page
• Linking to a Category Page
• Linking to External Links

Organizing Content

As the wiki continues to expand, its organization will become increasingly complex and important to manage. These are some internal functions that will help make the organization of the wiki possible.

Categories

Categories are used to group related entries. Entries are tagged using Category Tags, which will result in the entry's inclusion on the corresponding Category Page. Once tagged, the categories to which an entry has been assigned will be displayed at the bottom of that entry.

Table of Contents

A Table of Contents will automatically appear at the top of an entry/page after several headers have been added to that entry/page.

• There may be some circumstances in which a Table of Contents is not needed; it is possible to disable the Table of Contents by adding __NOTOC__ (NOTOC flanked by a double underscore) to the WikiTextEditor. This can be placed at the top of the page.
• There may be other circumstances in which you would like the Table of Contents to appear at a specific spot on the entry/page other than the very top. To achieve this, add __FORCETOC__ to the desired location with the WikiTextEditor.

Horizontal Table of Contents

Some larger pages that list many entries have been listed alphabetically. The automatic Table of Contents generated lists vertically, but it is ideal instead to make this a horizontal Table of Contents.

Modifying the Sidebar

The sidebar is another way to effectively organize the wiki. The sidebar is essentially a list of pages dedicated to key topics. It is constantly visible to readers regardless of the section of the wiki that they are browsing.

As the wiki develops, changes will have to be made to the sidebar to accommodate the development of topics in UNB History. Modifying the sidebar is as easy as editing any other page, though it must be accessed in a particular manner.

• To modify the sidebar simply edit this page, adding, altering, or removing links. To review how to add a new link visit the appropriate section in the Archives Manual.

Templates

Templates are an effective way to communicate a consistent message across multiple wiki entries/pages. Templates are extremely useful because they are malleable - changing the content of the original template page will result in the mass modification of that template on every page that it has been placed.

Several templates have already been created for the use of student contributors, though future wiki initiatives may warrant the creation of new templates.

Monitoring the Wiki

One of the primary roles of the administrator will be to monitor the wiki. MediaWiki has provided many tools to facilitate monitoring, as it is essential to preserve the integrity of any wiki.

Wiki Statistics

MediaWiki automatically gathers statistics about usage within the wiki.
Basic high-level statistics such as the number of pages, registered users, page edits, etc. can be found here:

High Usage Pages

A list of the entries/pages most often linked to:

A list of the most used categories:

Contributor & User Activity

Several special pages have been created to help monitor contributors' and users' activities on the wiki.

A list of all the significant activity within the wiki in reverse chronological order:

A list of recent edits to the wiki in reverse chronological order:

A list of wiki users:

A listing of wiki entries/pages from most recently created to oldest:

A gallery of the most recent images (and files) uploaded to the wiki: