http://smarterware.org A blog about software Tue, 15 May 2012 20:17:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://smarterware.org/3812/tweak-mediawiki-to-co-write-a-book http://smarterware.org/3812/tweak-mediawiki-to-co-write-a-book#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:32:01 +0000 Gina Trapani http://smarterware.org/?p=3812 My new book's web site is powered by the same software the runs Wikipedia, the deeply-customizable MediaWiki. Over at Lifehacker this morning, I ran though how to make MediaWiki your own for any collaborative or just easy-to-update web site with a skins, extensions, permissions, and a few more helpful tweaks. Here's how to customize MediaWiki for your next project.

]]> http://smarterware.org/3812/tweak-mediawiki-to-co-write-a-book/feed 1 http://smarterware.org/3147/how-to-edit-wikipedia http://smarterware.org/3147/how-to-edit-wikipedia#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:30:26 +0000 Gina Trapani http://smarterware.org/?p=3147 The Wall Street Journal reports that only 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women. What the what? Ladies, obviously we need to step it up. Here's my personal experience of becoming an editor, and how to contribute to Wikipedia. Excuse me while I hang my head in shame for not making any new edits since 2007.

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