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Tutorial: Organizing wiki content using MediaWiki

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By richarddias - Posted on 18 March 2010

In this article series by Jeff Orloff and Mizanur Rahman, authors of MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide , we will learn how to organize our content by creating namespaces that allow us to group pages with similar purposes together, and we learn how to use categories to group pages with similar content together. It also teaches us about redirecting, moving, and swapping pages around so that we can ensure when a visitor comes to our site, they find the information they are looking for because the page titles will match up with page's content. MediaWiki has many built-in features that will not only help us keep our content organized, but make it extremely easy to do this.

In this article, we will learn how to make use of these tools including:

  • How we can create Namespaces
  • How to create Categories
  • How to setup a Template for our users
  • Why we would redirect a page
  • How to move and swap a page

We have focused mainly on organizing content rather creating content in your wiki in this article. We assume you should have a few pages in your wiki. As our wiki grows in popularity, the amount of content it hosts will continue to grow so it is important to organize the content in your wiki so that our wiki looks better to our visitors and editing and reviewing content is much easier for our users. If we think of our wiki as a library, it is easy to see why we need to organize our wiki. After all, if you walk into a library with no system for organizing the books, movies, music, periodicals, and others you would find it hard to locate what you are looking for. Likewise, if we have no order in our wiki, then our visitors could find themselves frustrated when trying to find the information they are looking for. If they become too frustrated, they will go elsewhere.

FancyCMS has released its Free Flash CMS

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By TimSoulo - Posted on 17 March 2010

The FancyCMS team is proud to announce the release of its highly awaited free open source core.

FancyCMS is a brand new product on the flash CMS market and the release of an open source core allows to take the inner view to the software capabilities. We invite developers to try our free flash CMS in action and submit their feedbacks.

Main features of FancyCMS free core:

- Rich content pages with 2-level menus and support for different media files;
- Flash blog solution with the ability to moderate comments;
- 100% Seo Friendly website, deep linking;
- Ability to change site skins & plug your own flash sites to FancyCMS engine;
- Flash e-commerce.

To enlarge your experience with the product, we are giving out two FancyCMS premium templates as a free additon to the core.

You can get the full information at our website: http://fancycms.com

Kentico Announces the MVP Award Program

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By Kentico - Posted on 16 March 2010

Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, March 16, 2010 – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, announces the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, which is a one year industry recognition given to individuals based on their community participation and evangelistic activities in the CMS and .NET communities. 

“Kentico MVP’s are passionate about the tools and technologies of Kentico, .Net and the CMS community worldwide,“ says Thom Robbins, Product Evangelist at Kentico.

The very first person to be honored with the Kentico Most Valuable (MVP) Award is Richard Pendergast for his exceptional contributions to the Kentico community, represented especially by the Kentico Developer magazine he founded and manages.

“I feel very honored,“ says Richard Pendergast, Kentico Developer Magazine Director and founder. “This award means a great deal to me. Respecting and admiring so many of the Kentico partners I work with, means that to be singled out from amongst such a talented group feels like a really big deal. I look forward to taking advantage of this opportunity and working even more closely with the wider Kentico community.”

Who really defines what is a CMS?

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By Bryan - Posted on 16 March 2010

You do.

I'm more convinced than ever that CMS experts aren't really in the driver's seat when defining the content management system. Experts in the field of content management are more or less observant passengers that are there to help you not get lost and to point out the significant landmarks on the way. This journey takes you to places while you the customer remain in the driver seat with all the privileges and responsibilities of being the driver.

Over the past few years I've realized that my work preference is to keep things as simple as possible. Sometimes when defining information systems keeping things simple works while other times the system is new and remains too complicated to define. Thanks to my reply in a productive rant against CMS by Laurence Hart I'm not only understanding my aversion to being called a CMS expert but also my philosophy and role in defining what is a CMS. This personal philosophy is developing...

Scott Abel convinced me a few years ago on my own blog that the definition of a CMS is never static and always changing. We’re chasing our own tail when we get nit picky in our definitions of a CMS. Somewhere in all the marketing that has been done for terms such as CMS, ECM, and WCM…we have forgotten the difference between information system and information technology.