Switching to MediaWiki
From Christian Collegiate A Cappella Notes
This wiki was formerly powered by MoinMoin. MediaWiki has more traction these days, which means less work for the administrators. The most important change is how links are created.
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Links
MoinMoin made a new link to a page you could create by using CamelCase (or words run together with the separation between words evident by the capitalization). MediaWiki uses a different syntax:
[[New page of whatever name]]
The double square brackets denote the beginning and end of a new page name. You can put almost any characters in there, even spaces. The funny casing is no longer necessary.
Formatting
The triple curly braces used to make a preformatted block of text, as above, in Moin. In Mediawiki, use <code> and <pre> accordingly.
Signatures
In Moin there was a signature macro. The special text in MediaWiki is instead four tildes in a row:
~~~~
Tables
Table are significantly different. See below.
Other
For more on syntax, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help
