In general, a 'wiki' system is one where the readerbase can create and update documents with little editorial oversight required, most famously seen in Wikipedia and sister projects.
In particular, this site is partly a wiki, with many pages (such as this one) written in the wiki interface as opposed to in the code, and edits being published with no staff intervention or other delay.
In particular, this site is partly a wiki, with many pages (such as this one) written in the wiki interface as opposed to in the code, and edits being published with no staff intervention or other delay.
Permission to edit wiki pages is tied to the Editor role. We encourage anyone to join the Editors; just ask an Administrator to grant your account the role, there are no other requirements. Though you will of course be expected to follow the EditorGuidelines.
The wiki system used for this site is bespoke, not based on any existing software like MediaWiki or DokuWiki.
As MediaWiki is by far the most popular wiki software, the rest of this page is dedicated to a comparison between it and this site, for the benefit of those who already have experience in MediaWiki.
| MediaWiki | TASVideos wiki | |
|---|---|---|
| Misc. markup syntax | Wikitext, some HTML allowed | Bespoke |
| Image uploads | Allowed, with configurable limitations, stored in File: namespace | Disallowed (external access to staff only), stored in files.tasvideos.org |
| Embedded graphics | Parser extensions | Modules |
| Computation / databases / authority control | Scribunto and/or Wikibase (federated Wikidata) | Only via modules, which can't be introspected, no authority control |
| Content translation | Extension:Translate | Subpages with langcode,checkme text fragments not associated with English base |
| Re-use/dedup. | Transclusion of a whole page or a marked subset | No |
| Interface messages | MediaWiki: namespace (translatable) | System pages |
| Sandbox page(s) | By convention only, typically Project:Sandbox | By convention only, Sandbox |
| Meta pages for discussion | Every namespace has a talk counterpart | No, use Forum or other channels |
| Personal pages | User: namespace | Homepages |
| Page titles | Case-sensitive (Sentence case by convention, initial must be uppercase but can change display w/ DISPLAYTITLE), underscores used to encode spaces, some other chars. disallowed | Case-sensitive, PascalCase used to encode spaces (i.e. displayed as Title Case, no display override mechanism), some other chars. disallowed |
| Redirects | #REDIRECT | No |
| Broken links | Redlinks/Special:WantedPages/Special:BrokenRedirects | No redlinks, but WikiOrphans |
| Backlinks | Special:WhatLinksHere/Special:LonelyPages | Wiki/Referrers/WikiOrphans |