Academic hub/it

Le wiki accademiche sono wiki di terze parti concepite per essere usate in un contesto accademico con una maggiore enfasi su funzionalità come il controllo degli accessi, il controllo dei contenuti inseriti e funzioni di analisi delle ricerche.

For other third-party uses of MediaWiki, please see Sysadmin hub.

Condivisione del sapere
Many academic wikis are using Extension:Semantic MediaWiki and leveraging the semantic web to share data. The Mediawiki API can also be used to mine data from other sites; combined with an scheduler program like Cron this can lead to semi-automated data distribution.

Vampire Model
The vampire model consists of two rules:
 * 1) only registered users may edit
 * 2) only registered users may create accounts

This method of account-creation removes the burden of making all accounts from single user/admin, this greatly simplifies matters. Because trust of peers is relatively high in an academic setting, a single account can be made for a P.I., who then can make accounts for his/her students. Because Mediawiki logs all account activity it is (relatively) easy to track accountability for creation of spam/bot accounts.

Authentication

 * Extension:LDAP Authentication
 * Leverage an existing LDAP (including Microsoft Active Directory, Kerberos) as a single sign-on
 * Alternatives:
 * Extension:Windows NTLM LDAP Auto Auth

Authorization

 * Manual:Preventing_access
 * Manual:Block_and_unblock
 * Extension:EditSubpages
 * Security issues with authorization extensions

Editing

 * Extension:ParserFunctions
 * Bundled with core, required for complex templating including most WP templates.


 * Extension:WikiEditor
 * WYSIWYG editor sponsored by WikiMedia.


 * Vector
 * A Polished skin for MediaWiki that comes bundled by default. Enable Extension:Vector for advanced functionality for this skin.


 * Extension:Cite
 * Display citations to show where information originated. This is particularly useful when merging data from a single document on multiple wiki pages to indicate why the information is authoritative.


 * Extension:TableEdit
 * Forms-based editor for wiki-tables.

Navigation & Search

 * Extension:BreadCrumbs2
 * Navigation aid when traversing the wiki, usually used to display and highlight a category hierarchy.


 * Extension:CategoryTree
 * Improve category listings with counters for contained pages of sub-categories.


 * Extension:SphinxSearch
 * An alternative to the default search engine, lightweight but allowing more robust indexing of content through the third-party Sphinx engine.
 * Alternatives:
 * Extension:Lucene-search -- more complicated but more robust still, used by large wikis like Wikipedia


 * Extension:Semantic MediaWiki
 * Allows you to add meta data to content in wiki articles and providing a query language for dynamically retrieving content including properties and lists of articles.
 * Alternatives:
 * Extension:DynamicPageList