Wikihost

'Wikihost' is a MediaWiki service the IT department provides to the faculties, institutes, departments and research groups at UIB.

What is Wiki?

 Wiki is a publishing tool where many can participate and contribute their knowledge and experiences.

• With the Wiki you can produce text information with other people in a simple manner.

Wikepedia is a good example, and Wikihost-service uses the same technology: 'Mediawiki'

• You decide whether the information should be available to all the world, only UiB or only for your own ‘wiki’ group (institute, research-group or faculty).

• One or more people can work with the same information at the same time in the Wiki.

• All changes will be preserved in revisions

that means you get a history of the changes, and can go back and see how the document looked like at a certain time.

• No information is lost, every change is preserved.

• You can register a “watch” on the wiki-document and you will receive an email each time someone makes a change to the wiki page.

• You can "protect" pages so that only administrators and bureacrats can change the information

Test a wiki now?

There is a test wiki that everyone at University of Bergen can log in and try whatever.

Go to: https://wikihost.uib.no/testwiki, log in, and start editing.

You can't do anything wrong, so please feel free to test.

Do you want a MediaWiki instance for your faculty, institutes, department or research group?

You will get:

• A separate MediaWiki installation, installed by us, also called a wiki instance

• Manage access controll to other users from UiB (if necessary, normally we will provide this)

it is also possible to create accounts for people from other institutions that need to have access

• The IT department will provide backup of the data in the database

• The IT department will make sure to upgrade when it’s time for new versions

The wiki will be available at:

http://wikihost.uib.no/XXXwiki

Where XXXwiki is the name of the wiki.

Alternative to wiki

If your wiki is intended for a small group of people to work together, then prosjekt.uib.no can be a simpler and easier alternative.

Information about prosjekt.uib.no in Norwegian: prosjekt.uib.no

Extensions

Some have special requests for extensions beyond what is offered.

These wishes can be entered via http://bs.uib.no (stamp the issue with: "extension, wikihost")

But: even if we want to offer most of the functionality, we reserve the right to decide whether the extension is installed or not.

Available extensions

<rss>https://wikihost.uib.no/info/wikihost_extensions.rss</rss>

If you want the creation of a new wiki instance

Go to https://bs.uib.no (make a new issue and refer to this page).

We ask that the following points be answered:

• What should the wiki instance be called? Short name description. For example FOOBARWIKI

• Which language should the wiki be in?

(english, norwegian, ny-norwegian, others)?

• Should the wiki be readable for the whole world?

• Should everyone at your institution be able to read and change the content?

• Who should be able to log into the wiki in order to change the content?

(Organization, location code, user accounts). This can be changed later.

• Give an eventual list with: first name, last name and UIB username for those who must have administrator rights in the wiki (and bureacrat sysop rights).

Support

We’re unable to provide support in how to make wiki-pages and how to work in the wiki.

It is recommended that one read through the documentation:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Help

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents

Read more about Mediawiki here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/

Some of our MediaWiki instances

<rss>https://wikihost.uib.no/info/all_wikis.rss</rss>