Wikihost

wikihost.uib.no is a MediaWiki service the IT department provides to the faculties, institutes, departments and research groups at UIB.

What is Wiki?

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

Wikepedia is a good example, and Wiki Host service uses the same technology: Mediawiki

You decide whether the information should be available to all of the UIB or only for your own ‘wiki’ group.

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 was at a certain time. Nothing is lost :-)

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

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

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

- opportunities to manage the access to other users from UiB

- it is also possible to create accounts if there are people from other institutions who should 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.

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.

Here is the list of installed extensions one can choose between:

BrowseImages CategoryTree CategoryWatch CharInsert Cite DiscussionThreading FCKeditor freemind Gadgets GoogleMaps Interwiki JSKitNavigator JSKitRating MobileSkin MultiCategorySearch MultiUpload ParserFunctions RSSReader SelectCategoryTagCloud StringFunctions StubManager WildcardSearch

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 PROWIKI

- Wich language should the wiki be in?

- Should the wiki be readable for the whole world?

- Who should be able to log into the wiki in order to change the content? (Organization, location code, user accounts). 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).

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