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Wiki Usage:For administrators

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Editing the UI

Edit the sidebar
Mediawiki:Sidebar
Edit the site notice (the text displayed above the content of every page)
Mediawiki:Sitenotice
The above pages, and more, for modifying the layout and UI content
mw:Category:Interface_messages
iw_local, iw_trans) VALUES ("x2", "http://www.x2engine.com/$1", 1, 0);</syntaxhighlight> Then, a link to the "about" page:
[[x2:partners]]
For more information, see mw:Help:Interwiki
Add custom HTML to the template
Edit VectorTemplate::execute() in public_html/skins/Vector.php (a backup of this skin has been made in Backup/Vector, in case anything should go wrong). The body begins after these lines:
                // Output HTML Page
                $this->html( 'headelement' );

User Management

The following two plugins are enabled for user management:

These special pages are of use:

Miscellaneous

Change the syntax highlighting CSS
MediaWiki:Geshi.css
Purging a cached page (i.e. if the sidebar or site notice is out of date)
Add "&action=purge" to the end of the page's url and re-request the page.
Globally purging all cached pages and objects (more useful but more involved)
Log into the server via SSH and run clearCache.sh; that should change the modification time on LocalSettings.php, which will, due how the dynamic $wgCacheEpoch variable is set, invalidate all cached pages and thus regenerate them. Said variable's declaration is at the end of the file:
$wgCacheEpoch = gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) );
Create a URL shorthand for linking to another site
For example, one has been made for www.x2engine.com so that the "About X2Engine" in the footer could be made a link to the main X2Engine site:
INSERT INTO interwiki (iw_prefix, iw_url, iw_local, iw_trans) VALUES ("x2", "http://www.x2engine.com/$1", 1, 0);
That interwiki entry transforms (for example) the code
[[x2:partners/|About X2Engine]]
into
<a href="http://www.x2engine.com/partners/">About X2Engine</a>